will respond to ping commands and will appear online after installing Cluster Service (MSCS) on the cluster nodes. If the IP address resources are not set up correctly, the cluster nodes may not be able to communicate with the domain and the Windows 2000 Cluster Configuration wizard may not allow you to configure all of your networks.

Installing and Configuring Your Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Network

The following sections describe an example for using Windows 2000 for configuring your PowerEdge Cluster FE100/FL100 Datacenter Server network.

NOTE: The IP addresses for the public network, default gateway, domain name sys- tem (DNS) servers, and Windows Internet naming service (WINS) servers used here are examples and are not representative of actual addresses that should be used for your environment.

Overview of a Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Network Installation

The Windows Networking Components wizard detects each individual adapter installed in your system and allows you to configure them separately. If your adapter is not detected by Windows 2000, you will need to manually add its Windows 2000 digitally-signed driver. If there are two or more identical NICs installed in the cluster node, it may be difficult to determine which NIC you are trying to configure.

There are several factors that can determine how Windows 2000 scans the peripheral component interconnect (PCI) buses. If you cannot communicate with the domain or cannot ping other adapters on the same subnet after you have completed the follow- ing steps, you must reconfigure Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP).

Table 6-2 provides the configuration information that is used in the following procedure.

Table 6-2. IP Addresses

Use

Cluster Node 1

Cluster Node 2

Cluster Node 3

Cluster Node 4

 

 

 

 

 

Public network static

192.168.1.101

192.168.1.102

192.168.1.103

192.168.1.104

IP addresses permits

 

 

 

 

communication with

 

 

 

 

clients and domain

 

 

 

 

controllers

 

 

 

 

Public network sub-

255.255.255.0

255.255.255.0

255.255.255.0

255.255.255.0

net mask

 

 

 

 

Public network

192.168.1.1

192.168.1.1

192.168.1.1

192.168.1.1

default gateway

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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