Configuring Cluster Discovery

Parallels Cloud Storage discovery is the process of:

1. Detecting all available cluster names on the network. Each Parallels Cloud Storage cluster is identified by a unique name. All cluster tools use this name when performing specific operations on the cluster or monitoring its health and status.
2. Resolving the detected cluster names into the network addresses of MDS servers. MDS servers are the central components of any cluster, so all cluster tools must be able to discover their IP addresses.

To set up cluster discovery in your network, you can use one of the following techniques:

• (Recommended) DNS records (see Using DNS records ),
• Zeroconf (see Setting Up Zeroconf ).

You can also manually specify the information about metadata servers when setting up or configuring the cluster (see Specifying MDS Servers Manually ).

Note: To verify that the Hardware Node can discover the cluster, use the pstorage discover command.