Setting Up the First Metadata Server

Setting up the first MDS server is the first step in creating a Parallels Cloud Storage cluster. You can add more MDS servers later to provide better availability for your cluster, as described in Configuring MDS Servers .

The process of setting up the first MDS server (called master MDS server ) and, thus, creating a cluster includes two stages:

1. Preparing to create the MDS server .
2. Creating the MDS server .