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Chapter 2 Installation Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Chapter 3 Preparing PowerEdge and
PowerVault Systems for Clustering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Adding Peripherals to Your Cluster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Configuring Fibre Channel HBAs on Separate PCI Buses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Configuring PowerVault DPE and DAE Enclosure Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Chapter 4 Cabling the Cluster Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Cluster Cabling Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
Fibre Channel Copper Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Cabling Your Public Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Using NICs in Your Public Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Cabling Your Private Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Using Broadcom NetExtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controllers in
Your Private Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Using Giganet cLAN for the Private Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Protecting Your Cluster From Power Failure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Connecting Standby Power Supplies in the PowerVault System . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Cabling Your Mouse, Keyboard, and
Monitor in a Dell Rack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Chapter 5 Configuring Storage Systems
(Low-Level Configuration). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Configuring PowerVault Shared Storage Hard-Disk Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Configuring the LUNs and RAID Level for the Shared Storage Subsystem . . 5-2
Configuring Internal SCSI Hard-Disk Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
RAID Level for the Internal SCSI Hard-Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Chapter 6 Configuring the System Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Preparing for Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Installation . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Configuring the Cluster Nodes in a
Windows 2000 Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Configuring the Windows 2000 Cluster Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Configuring the Public and Private Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Static IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Configuring the IP Addresses for the Private Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5