20 HP ProLiant Cluster F100 Installation Guide
•Only NTFS and basic disks are supported on shared drives.
•MSCS software requires drive letters to remain constant throughout the life of the cluster. Therefore, you must assign permanent drive letters to the shared drives.
•Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Enterprise Edition and Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server makes dynamic drive letter assignments (when drives are added or removed, or when the boot order of drive controllers is changed), but Disk Management enables you to make permanent drive letter assignments.
•Cluster nodes can be members of only one cluster.
•When you set up the cluster, select TCP/IP as the network protocol. MSCS requires the TCP/IP protocol. The cluster interconnect must be on its own subnet. The IP addresses of the interconnects must be static, not dynamically assigned by DHCP.
Installing the Hardware
The following installation steps detail a new installation and setup of an F100 for MSA1000 or F100 for the RA4100.
Setting Up the Nodes
Each cluster node requires at least two network adapters: one to connect to a public network and one to connect to a private network. Physically preparing the nodes (servers) for use in a cluster is not very different from preparing them for individual use. The primary difference will be in setting up the shared storage.
1.Install all necessary adapter cards and insert all internal hard drives.
2.Attach network cables and plug in Fibre Channel cables.
3.Set up one node completely, then set up the second node.
IMPORTANT: Do not load any software on either cluster node until all the hardware has been installed in both cluster nodes.
NOTE: HP recommends that ASR be left at the default values for clustered servers.