Dell F-Series manual Ter FE100/FL100 Platform Guide for more information

Table 1-1. Rules and Guidelines for SAN-Attached Clusters (continued)

Rule/Guideline	Description
Fibre Channel	PowerVault 50F, 51F, and 56F.
switches supported
Fibre Channel switch	For 50F, version 1.6d5-dell or later; for 51F and 56F, ver-
firmware	sion 2.1.7 or later.
Fibre Channel HBA	QLogic 2100/33, 2200/33, or 2200/66 megahertz (MHz)
supported	HBA (copper cabling). HBAs within a single cluster must
	be the same.
QLogic driver	Version 7.04.08 or later for Windows NT.
version	Version 7.04.08 or later for Windows 2000.
QLConfig version	Version 1.24 or later. See “Installing the QLogic Fibre
	Channel Configuration Utility,” found later in this docu-
	ment, for information on installing QLConfig.
PowerVault	Version 5.11.08 or later. All PowerVault storage systems
firmware version	must be running the same version of firmware.
Operating system	Each cluster attached to the SAN can run either
	Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Edition or
	Windows 2000 Advanced Server. A SAN configuration
	with one or more clusters running Windows 2000 and
	one or more clusters running Windows NT is supported.
Windows NT or	Windows NT configurations require Service Pack 6a or
Windows 2000 ser-	later. Windows 2000 configurations require the latest
vice pack	supported service pack. See the Dell PowerEdge Clus-
	ter FE100/FL100 Platform Guide for more information
	on the latest supported service pack.
PowerVault 530F	Not supported.
SAN appliance

NOTES: See “Installing the QLogic Fibre Channel Configuration Utility,” found later in this document, for information on installing QLConfig in SAN-attached cluster configurations.

Dell OpenManage Storage Consolidation software must not be running on cluster nodes.

With SAN 3.0, you can configure a SAN of up to 20 servers and 8 storage systems.

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