05-May-2005

Building the cluster
Today the DEC3000 was set up as clustermember, using VMS 7.3-2 - a clean install, no upgrade, on the smaller disk (1.05 Gb). Took defaults, installed outside the network, machine is named IO. Comes up nicely after reboot. Defined it to be a clustermemeber, shutdown, connected to the network and booted.
But ALAS.
Since I used the default label for the system disk, the system tried to connect to the cluster but found the same label already mentioned elsewhere: on Diana (the only other one at the moment), causing IO to bugcheck and Diana to hang - and that required a power-cycle to get it up and running again...
To be honest - I had the same trouble when building the cluster in course last year....Beginner's mistake. So I relabelesd IO's system disk and booted. HURRAY! I GOT MY CLUSTER!