Dell 4200 manual Minimum System Requirements, PowerEdge Cluster Layout

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storage systems (1 or 2) with RAID

Figure 1-1. PowerEdge Cluster Layout

Minimum System Requirements

NOTE: If you are upgrading an existing system to a PowerEdge Cluster, check this list to ensure that your upgrade meets these requirements.

The PowerEdge Cluster requires the following minimum system hardware configuration:

•Two PowerEdge 4200 systems with the following configuration:

—One or two 233-megahertz (MHz), one or two 266-MHz, or one or two 300-MHz Intel® Pentium® II microprocessors with at least 512 kilobytes (KB) of level 2 (L2) cache.

—128 megabytes (MB) of random-access memory (RAM).

—A minimum of one PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller in each PowerEdge system with 16 MB of single in-line memory module (SIMM) memory. This controller must have cluster-specific firmware and must be installed in Peripheral Component Interconnect [PCI] slot 7. A second cluster RAID controller can be added to slot 5, but the first cluster RAID controller must be installed in slot 7.

—Two 4-GB internal SCSI hard-disk drives (three drives are required for an internal RAID 5 configuration).

—Two Ethernet NICs, installed in PCI slots 4 and

8.The LAN-connected NIC resides in PCI slot 8, and the node-to-node interconnect NIC occu- pies slot 4.

•Power cabling and distribution components required:

—For the Americas: Two Power Techniques

power strips with Type B plugs, Model P905200

—For Europe: One or two Marway power distri- bution units (PDUs), Model MPD-411013 or two Power Techniques power strips with Type B plugs, Model P906200

•One or two SDS 100 storage system(s) for the shared disk resource with the following configuration:

—Cluster-specific basic input/output system (BIOS) upgrade for the PowerEdge systems for turning the SDS 100 storage system backplane into a 1 x 8 mode (one SCSI channel with up to eight hard-disk drives) when two RAID control- lers are present.

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