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40 Preparing Your Systems for Clustering

Configure each cluster node as a member in the same Windows Active

Directory Domain.

NOTE: You can configure the cluster nodes as Domain Controllers. For more

information, see the “Selecting a Domain Model” section of Dell Failover

Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Installation and

Troubleshooting Guide or Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows

Server 2008 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide located on the Dell

Support website at support.dell.com.

Establish the physical storage topology and any required storage network

settings to provide connectivity between the storage array and the systems

that you are configuring as cluster nodes. Configure the storage system(s)

as described in your storage system documentation.

Use storage array management tools to create at least one logical unit

number (LUN). The LUN is used as a cluster Quorum disk for Windows

Server 2003 Failover cluster and as a Witness disk for Windows Server 2008

Failover cluster. Ensure that this LUN is presented to the systems that you

are configuring as cluster nodes.

NOTE: For security reasons, it is recommended that you configure the LUN on

a single node as mentioned in step8 when you are setting up the cluster.

Later, you can configure the LUN as mentioned in step9 so that other nodes in

the cluster can access it.

Select one of the systems and form a new failover cluster by configuring

the cluster name, cluster management IP, and quorum resource. For more

information, see "Preparing Your Systems for Clustering" on page39.

NOTE: For Failover Clusters configured with Windows Server 2008, run the

Cluster Validation Wizard to ensure that your system is ready to form the

cluster.

Join the remaining node(s) to the failover cluster. For more information,

see "Preparing Your Systems for Clustering" on page39.

Configure roles for cluster networks.

Test the failover capabilities of your new cluster.

NOTE: For Failover Clusters configured with Windows Server 2008, you can

also use the Cluster Validation Wizard.