Dell FE400 manual Supported Cluster Configurations

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This document provides information for installing and connecting peripheral hardware, storage, and storage area network (SAN) components for your Dell™ PowerEdge™ Cluster FE400 solution. The configuration information in this document is specific to the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server and Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition operating systems.

This document covers the following topics:

Configuration information for installing peripheral hardware components, such as HBAs, NICs, and PCI adapter cards into Cluster FE400 configurations

Configuration rules and guidelines for direct-attached or SAN-attached configurations

Best practices

NOTE: Configurations not listed in this document may not be certified or supported by Dell or Microsoft.

NOTE: In this guide and in other cluster documentation, the Microsoft Cluster Service (for Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition) is also referred to as MSCS.

Supported Cluster Configurations

This section provides information about supported cluster configurations for your PowerEdge cluster configuration.

The Cluster FE400 solution supports the following configurations:

Two-node clusters running the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server operating system.

Clusters with up to eight nodes running the Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition operating system.

Table 1-1 provides a list of supported cluster configurations for the Cluster FE400 systems running Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition.

NOTE: Each cluster node must be of the same system model and have two or more processors.

Table 1-1. Supported Cluster Configurations

PowerEdge

Supported

Supported Storage Systems Supported Cluster Interconnect (for the

Cluster

PowerEdge

Private Network)

 

Systems

 

FE400

1550, 1650, 1750,

Dell EMC CX600

 

1800, 1850, 2500,

Dell EMC CX400

 

2550, 2600, 2650,

Dell EMC CX200

 

2800, 2850, 4400,

 

4600, 6400, 6450,

 

 

6600, 6650, and

 

 

8450

 

Any NIC supported by the system.

NOTE: All nodes in the same cluster must use homogeneous (identical) NICs for the cluster interconnect.

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Contents W . d e l l . c o m s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o m Platform GuideSeptember 6W455 Supported Cluster Configurations High-Availability Cluster Configurations Windows 2000 Advanced ServerWindows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition Fibre Channel Switches Maximum Distance Between Cluster Nodes PCI PXI-X Slot Slot Type Slot Speed QLogic QLA2340 Emulex LP1050-EX PCIe Emulex LP1050-EX Drives through mount points Attaching Your Cluster Shared Storage System to a SAN Best Practices Incorrect TimeOutValue setting in the RegistryHKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Disk\TimeOutValue Using a Tape Backup Library in a SANEmulex Configuration Tool window appears Cluster disks are not initialized in Disk Management