provides a service fail-over between the nodes

Adding a Failover Domain
To add a failover domain, follow the steps in this section. The starting point of the procedure is at the
cluster-specific page that you navigate to from Choose a cluster to administer displayed on the
cluster tab.
1. At the detailed menu for the cluster (below the clusters menu), click Failover Domains. Clicking
Failover Domains causes the display of failover domains with related services and the display of
menu items for failover domains: Add a Failover Domain and Configure a Failover Domain .

2. Click Add a Failover Domain. Clicking Add a Failover Domain causes the display of the Add a
Failover Domain page.

3. At the Add a Failover Domain page, specify a failover domain name at the Failover Domain
Name text box.
Note
The name should be descriptive enough to distinguish its purpose relative to other names
used in your cluster.

4. To enable setting failover priority of the members in the failover domain, click the Prioritized
checkbox. With Prioritized checked, you can set the priority value, Priority, for each node
selected as members of the failover domain.

5. To restrict failover to members in this failover domain, click the checkbox next to Restrict failover
to this domain's members. With Restrict failover to this domain's members checked,
services assigned to this failover domain fail over only to nodes in this failover domain.

6. To specify that a node does not fail back in this failover domain, click the checkbox next to Do not
fail back services in this domain. With Do not fail back services in this domain checked, if a
service fails over from a preferred node, the service does not fail back to the original node once it
has recovered.

7. Configure members for this failover domain. Under Failover domain membership, click the
Member checkbox for each node that is to be a member of the failover domain. If Prioritized is
checked, set the priority in the Priority text box for each member of the failover domain.

8. Click Submit. Clicking Submit causes a progress page to be displayed followed by the display
of the Failover Domain Form page. That page displays the added resource and includes the
failover domain in the cluster menu to the left under Domain.