US 2022/0012208 A1 · CONFIGURING A FILE SERVER

Abstract

For two or more processing nodes of a cluster of a file server, the IO modules associated with the nodes may be required to be part of a same sub-network. A cluster may be configured to ensure that, for each processing node of the cluster, at least one other processing node of the cluster is associated with an IO module on a same sub-network as the IO module associated with the processing node. The user may configure a file server to ensure that a primary node and one or more failover nodes of the file server are on a same sub-network. When configuring IO modules, physical ports having similar or same characteristics may be configured to be on a same sub-network. By doing so, and restricting nodes of a file server to being on a same sub-network, a relatively seamless failover between nodes of a file server may be achieved.

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Dependent claims

A method of configuring an application on a storage system, comprising:

associating a plurality of IO modules of the storage system with a cluster of processing nodes;
defining a network address for each IO module, each network address belonging to a first sub-network;
and
associating a plurality of the processing nodes of the cluster with the application, which includes restricting the plurality of the processing nodes to processing nodes associated with IO modules having an network address on the first sub-network.

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Configuring a file server

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Abstract

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