The General page contains properties
for the selected resource group. You can view and edit these properties
by using the Edit task.
Fields
- Name
- Specifies the unique name of the selected resource group.
- Available nodes
- Lists all discovered cluster nodes within the selected cluster.
Select each node that you want to participate in the new resource
group and then click > to move the node to
the Participating nodes list. Select nodes
in order of priority, from top to bottom, for handling failover during
a node failure.
- Participating nodes (in priority order)
- Lists all cluster nodes that are currently participating in the
specified resource group. The nodes in this list are either the nodes
that were configured for the resource group when it was created, or
the nodes that were selected for the resource group from the Available
nodes list.
You can remove a node from the resource
group by selecting the node and then clicking the < to
move the node to back to the Available nodes list.
To change the priority of a node, select it in the list, and then
click the appropriate arrow that is next to the list to move the node
up or down in the list.
Note: There must be at least one participating
node. However, two or more nodes are necessary to make a resource
group highly available.
- Other Resource Group Settings
- Enable WPAR
- Indicates whether workload partitions (WPARs) are enabled. WPARs
are virtualized operating system environments which are, created by
software that is within a single instance of the AIX® operating system. This field specifies that
all PowerHA® SystemMirror application
servers in the current resource group run in the specified WPAR. In
addition, all the service label and file system resources that are
part of this resource group are assigned to the specified WPAR.