Installing and Configuring Your Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Network . . . . . 6-6Overview of a Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Network Installation. . . . . . 6-6Updating the Host Bus Adapter Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Installing the Dell OpenManage Storage Management Software

for the PowerVault Storage System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Configuring Shared Drives Using the Windows 2000

Disk Management Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11

Assigning Drive Letters and Formatting Drives

on the Shared Storage System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11 Using the Windows 2000 Dynamic Disks and Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12 Verifying Cluster Readiness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13 Installing and Configuring the Windows 2000 Cluster Service . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13 Cluster Quorum Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13 Cluster Resource Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14 Adding Additional Applications and Data to the Quorum Disk . . . . . . . . 6-14Verifying Cluster Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15Verifying Cluster Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15Verifying Cluster Resource Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15

Configuring the Dell OpenManage

Manage Node (Data Agent) for a Cluster Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16 Configuring the Data Agent for Cluster Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16Configuring Failover and Failback Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18Failover Support Through Four-Node Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18 Modifying the Failover Sequence of the Disk Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-19

Chapter 7 Installing Cluster Management

and Systems Management Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

Microsoft Cluster Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1Running Cluster Administrator on a Cluster Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

Installing Cluster Administrator on a Remote Console Running

Windows 2000 Professional. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

Installing the Cluster Administrator on a Remote Console Running

Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Server Editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Installing Cluster Administrator for Windows 2000 on a Remote Console

Running Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Installing Dell OpenManage Cluster Assistant With ClusterX (Optional). . . . . . . . . 7-3

Chapter 8 Upgrading Your PowerEdge

System to a Cluster Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1

Upgrading Your PowerEdge System to a PowerEdge Cluster FE100/FL100 Datacenter Server Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1

Installing the Appropriate Version of

Windows 2000 on Your PowerEdge System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2

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