topic Re: Virtual Manager turned on in StoreVirtual Storage

Virtual Manager turned on

Mark Brand — Mon, 09 May 2011 11:21:31 GMT

I added a third storage node to my P4500, it finished restriping the raid. I noticed that the Virtual Manager is turned on. Everything is normal and operating fine. Can I turn this off, if I have the manager running on the three storage nodes?

Re: Virtual Manager turned on

Buenaventura Acera — Tue, 10 May 2011 06:55:53 GMT

Yes you can.
With your actual managers running at each node, your quorum schema is a 2 votes needed for quorum.
Having running the Virtual Manager doesn't provide added security.

Re: Virtual Manager turned on

Mike Povall — Tue, 10 May 2011 07:21:08 GMT

Hi Mark,

Now that you have three storage nodes, which I assume are all in the same cluster and each running a manager, you no longer need the virtual manager and it should be deleted.

Regards, Mike.

Re: Virtual Manager turned on

Mark Brand — Tue, 10 May 2011 10:21:53 GMT

Great thanks. I turned it off and will delete the virtual mgr.