This topic describes how to start a metadata server.
Prerequisites
You must have Administrator or Operator privileges to perform
this task.
Context
Starting a
metadata server will
attempt to put the server or servers selected in
the current cluster state.
Note: - The system will try to match the servers to the cluster's current running state
(online, offline, fully or partly quiescent).
Steps
- If you are starting a newly added or previously removed metadata server:
- Log on to the engine where you are adding the server.
- Run the setupsfs command
on the engine to newly define the server configuration. If you previously
defined a server on this engine, setupsfs gives
you the opportunity to accept or reject the previous configuration values
(the setupsfs utility looks at the previous config file). For example, if
you are changing the IP address of the server, specify the new IP address
and accept the other previous values.
- At the end of its information entry, the setupsfs utility gives
you the option to start the metadata server.
You should let the setupsfs utility start the metadata server for
you. This procedure leaves a non-clustered, subordinate metadata server running
on the new engine.
- Log into the master engine. Issue the addserver command
with the IP address you assigned the new server in 1.b. The addserver command tells the master metadata server to
contact that IP address looking for a new metadata server.
- If you starting an existing metadata server:
- From the SAN File System console, click from
the My Work frame.
- Select one or more metadata servers
to start.
Note: You can only start those metadata servers
with a state of “not running” or “unknown.”
- Click Start from the drop-down box in
the table header.
- Click Go.