Chapter 4

Configuring a Cluster

About this chapter

This chapter describes how to bring up a new standard or mirrored cluster for the first time. It describes how to enable licenses, set cluster options, configure networking for the cluster, and test the configuration.

Note
For information about configuring a cluster to use FCP, see "How Data ONTAP supports FCP with clustered systems" in the Block Access Management Guide.

Topics in this chapter

This chapter addresses the following topics:

Stage 1: Bringing up the cluster for the first time
Stage 2: Running diagnostics
Stage 3: Enabling licenses
Stage 4: Setting options and parameters
Stage 5: Configuring network interfaces
Stage 6: Checking and testing cluster configuration