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Table 1-1. Rules and Guidelines for SAN-Attached Clusters (continued)

Rule/Guideline

Description

 

 

Fibre Channel

PowerVault 50F, 51F, and 56F.

switches supported

 

 

 

Fibre Channel switch

For 50F, version 1.6d5-dell or later; for 51F and 56F, ver-

firmware

sion 2.1.7 or later.

 

 

Fibre Channel HBA

QLogic 2100/33, 2200/33, or 2200/66 megahertz (MHz)

supported

HBA (copper cabling). HBAs within a single cluster must

 

be the same.

 

 

QLogic driver

Version 7.04.08 or later for Windows NT.

version

Version 7.04.08 or later for Windows 2000.

 

 

QLConfig version

Version 1.24 or later. See “Installing the QLogic Fibre

 

Channel Configuration Utility,” found later in this docu-

 

ment, for information on installing QLConfig.

 

 

PowerVault

Version 5.11.08 or later. All PowerVault storage systems

firmware version

must be running the same version of firmware.

 

 

Operating system

Each cluster attached to the SAN can run either

 

Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Edition or

 

Windows 2000 Advanced Server. A SAN configuration

 

with one or more clusters running Windows 2000 and

 

one or more clusters running Windows NT is supported.

 

 

Windows NT or

Windows NT configurations require Service Pack 6a or

Windows 2000 ser-

later. Windows 2000 configurations require the latest

vice pack

supported service pack. See the Dell PowerEdge Clus-

 

ter FE100/FL100 Platform Guide for more information

 

on the latest supported service pack.

 

 

PowerVault 530F

Not supported.

SAN appliance

 

 

 

NOTES: See “Installing the QLogic Fibre Channel Configuration Utility,” found later in this document, for information on installing QLConfig in SAN-attached cluster configurations.

Dell OpenManage Storage Consolidation software must not be running on cluster nodes.

With SAN 3.0, you can configure a SAN of up to 20 servers and 8 storage systems.

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