HP manual Pre-Installation Steps, Verify RAID RA7000/ESA10000 for HP-UX Cluster Requirements

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Pre-Installation Steps

This chapter addresses the preparation needed before installing and configuring the RA7000 / ESA10000 cluster hardware components.

The pre-installation steps required to support a cluster are as follows:

∙Verify Cluster Requirements

∙Inventory the SCSI Connection Kit

∙Perform a System Backup

∙Plan the Cluster Layout (e.g., the SCSI Bus Interconnect)

∙Prepare the SCSI Host Adapters

1.1Verify (RAID RA7000/ESA10000 for HP-UX) Cluster Requirements

Please verify that the cluster requirements listed in Table 1-1 are met.

Table 1–1 RAID RA7000 / ESA10000 for HP-UX – Cluster Prerequisites

Host Feature	Requirement
Platform	Two (minimum) HP host servers
Operating System	HP-UX version 10.20 or later
Cluster Software	HP MC/ServiceGuard version 10.10 or later
Free Disk Space	500KB per server for MC/ServiceGuard software
Storage Subsystem	StorageWorks RA7000 or ESA10000 RAID
	subsystem
RAID Controllers	Two StorageWorks HSZ70 controllers per RAID
	subsystem, trilinked, operating firmware V7.0
SCSI Host Adapters	HP, HD68-pin (one adapter per host server).
	Supported models: A28696A, A2969A, A4107A.
Additional Items	Requirement
RAID SCSI Connection Kit	(Reference Table 1-2 for contents)
RAID Hardware	RAID subsystem kit DS-SWXRA-xx
Service Tools	Appropriate tools to service your equipment
Technical Documentation	The reference guides for the RAID subsystem, HP
	servers and MC/ServiceGuard cluster software
	supplement this installation guide.

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