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## 9.10 Scenario: Manual split and merge policy 

## 9.10.1 Scenario description 

This section presents a manual split and merge policy scenario. 

Figure 9-38 shows the topology of this scenario. 

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## 9.10.2 Split and merge configuration in PowerHA 

The fast path to set the split and merge policy is smitty cm_cluster_sm_policy_chk . The full path is running smitty sysmirror  and then selecting Custom Cluster Configuration → Cluster Nodes and Networks →  Initial Cluster Setup (Custom) →  Configure Cluster Split and Merge Policy →  Split and Merge Management Policy . 

We select Manual  for the split handling policy, as shown in Example 9-56. 

Split Handling Policy  Move cursor to desired item and press Enter. None TieBreaker Manual 

