Compaq AA-RHGWC-TE manual Audience, Organization

About This Manual

This manual describes how to set up and maintain the hardware configuration for a TruCluster™ Server cluster.

Audience

This manual is for system administrators who will set up and configure the hardware before installing the TruCluster Server software. The manual assumes that you are familiar with the tools and methods needed to maintain your hardware, operating system, and network.

Organization

This manual contains 10 chapters, an appendix, and an index. The organization of this manual has been restructured to provide a more streamlined manual. The chapters that contained information on SCSI bus requirements and configuration, and configuring hardware, in previous versions of this manual have been split up into two sets of two chapters each. One set (Chapters 3 and 4) covers the UltraSCSI hardware and is geared towards radial configurations. The other set (Chapters 9 and 10) covers configurations using either external termination or radial connection to non-UltraSCSI devices. A brief description of the contents follows:

Chapter 1 Introduces the TruCluster Server product and provides an overview of setting up TruCluster Server hardware.

Chapter 2 Describes hardware requirements and restrictions.

Chapter 3 Contains information about setting up a shared SCSI bus, SCSI bus requirements, and how to connect storage to a shared SCSI bus using the latest UltraSCSI products (DS-DWZZH UltraSCSI hubs, and HSZ70 and HSZ80 RAID array controllers).

Chapter 4 Describes how to prepare systems for a TruCluster Server configuration, and how to connect host bus adapters to shared storage using the DS-DWZZH UltraSCSI hubs and the newest RAID array controllers (HSZ70 and HSZ80).

Chapter 5 Describes how to set up the Memory Channel cluster interconnect, and how to upgrade Memory Channel interconnects.

Chapter 6 Provides an overview of Fibre Channel and describes how to set up Fibre Channel hardware.

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