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  11.1  SYS$PBDRIVER Port Devices

  When booting as both a Galaxy and as a cluster member,
  SYS$PBDRIVER will be loaded by default.  The loading of
  this driver will create a device PBAx, where x represents
  the Galaxy partition Id.  As other instances are booted, they
  will also create PBAx devices.  The Shared Memory CI will
  quickly discover the other instances and create communi-
  cations channels to the other instances.  Unlike traditional
  cluster interconnects, a new device will be created to com-
  municate to the other instances.  This device will also have
  the name PBAx, where x represents the Galaxy partition Id
  for the instance with which this device is communicating.

  For example, look at a Galaxy consisting of two instances:
  MILKY and WAY. MILKY is instance 0 and WAY is in-
  stance 1.  When node MILKY boots, it creates PBA0.  When
  node WAY boots, it creates PBA1.  As the two nodes discover
  each other, MILKY creates PBA1 to talk to WAY and WAY
  creates PBA0 to talk to MILKY.

               MILKY                   WAY

               PBA0:                   PBA1:
               PBA1:    <------->      PBA0:

  11.1.1  Multiple Clusters in a Single Galaxy
  SYS$PBDRIVER can support multiple clusters in the same

  Galaxy.  This is done in the same way that SYS$PEDRIVER
  allows support for multiple clusters on the same LAN. The
  cluster group number and password used by SYS$PEDRIVER
  are also used by SYS$PBDRIVER to distinguish different
  clusters in the same Galaxy community.  If your Galaxy in-
  stances are also clustered with other OpenVMS instances
  via the LAN, the cluster group number would be set appro-
  priately by CLUSTER_CONFIG. To determine the current
  cluster group number:

  $  MCR  SYMAN
  SYSMAN>  CONFIGURATION  SHOW  CLUSTER_AUTHORIZATION
  Node:  MILKY    Cluster  group  number:  0
  Multicast  address:  xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx
  SYSMAN>

  If you are not clustering over a LAN and you want to run
  multiple clusters in the same Galaxy community, then you
  must set the cluster group number.  You must insure that the
  group number and password is set the same for all Galaxy
  instances which you wish to be in the same cluster.

  $  MCR  SYSMAN
  SYSMAN>  CONFIGURATION  SET  CLUSTER_AUTHORIZATION/GROUP_NUMBER=222/PASSWORD=xxxx
  SYSMAN>

  In most cases, CLUSTER_CONFIG should do the right thing.
  If your Galaxy instances are also clustering over the LAN,

  CLUSTER_CONFIG will ask for a cluster group number
  and the Galaxy instances will utilize those group numbers.  If
  you are not clustering over a LAN, the group number will
  default to zero.  This means that all instances in the Galaxy
  will be in the same cluster.
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