Brocade Fabric OS Encryption Administrator's Guide Supporting Fabric OS v6.2.0 (53-1001201-04, May 2009)

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Creating high availability (HA) clusters

4. Select an available encryption engine, and a destination HA cluster under High-Availability

Clusters. Select New HA Cluster if you are creating a new cluster.

5. Click the right arrow to add the encryption engine to the selected HA cluster.

FIGURE 48 HA Clusters tab

NOTE

If you are creating a new HA cluster, a dialog box displays requesting a name for the new HA cluster.

HA Cluster names can have up to 31 characters. Letters, digits, and underscores are allowed.

Removing engines from an HA cluster

Removing the last engine from an HA cluster also removes the HA cluster.

If only one engine is removed from a two-engine cluster, you must either add another engine to the

cluster or the other engine must be removed too.

1. Select an encryption engine from the right tree (see Figure 48) and click the left arrow button.

2. Either remove the second engine or add a replacement second engine, making sure all HA

clusters have exactly two engines.

3. Click OK.

Swapping engines in an HA cluster

Swapping engines is useful when replacing hardware. Swapping engines is different from removing

an engine and adding another because when you swap engines, the configured targets on the

former HA cluster member are moved to the new HA cluster member.

To swap engines, select one engine from the right tree (see Figure 48) and one unclustered engine

from the list on the left, and click the double-arrow button.

NOTE

The two engines being swapped must be in the same fabric.