Changing an IP address in a multi-engine cluster

This topic describes how to change the IP address of a metadata server in a typical environment with multiple engines in the cluster.

Context

Following the change of a metadata server IP address, you must reboot the metadata server.

Steps

  1. Reassign statically-assigned filesets so the filesets are no longer served by the metadata server as necessary.
  2. Drop the metadata server for which you want to change the IP address. You can use the dropserver command.
  3. Reconfigure the engine that the metadata server resides on so that the engine uses the new IP address. You need to edit the appropriate Linux™ configuration files.
  4. Run the setupsfs utility to create a new instance of the metadata server on the engine and specify the new Server IP address.
  5. Reboot the metadata server.
  6. Add the new metadata server to the cluster from the master metadata server using the addserver command or the Add a server to Cluster action from the Servers panel.

Parent topic: Managing metadata servers

Related concepts
Metadata server

Related reference
dropserver
addserver
Servers panel

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