Dell FE400 manual Attaching Your Cluster Shared Storage System to a SAN

Attaching Your Cluster Shared Storage System to a SAN

This section provides the rules and guidelines for attaching your PowerEdge cluster nodes to the shared storage systems through a Dell EMC SAN using redundant Fibre Channel switch fabrics.

Rules and Guidelines

The rules and guidelines described in Table 1-6 apply to SAN-attached clusters.

Table 1-6. SAN-Attached Clusters Rules and Guidelines

Rule/Guideline	Description
Primary storage	Each Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows Server 2003,
	Enterprise Edition cluster can support up to 22 unique drive letters for
	shared logical drives. Windows Server 2003 can support additional
	physical drives through mount points.
	Up to four Dell EMC Fibre Channel disk arrays are supported per
	cluster in a SAN environment.
Secondary storage	Up to two PowerVault™ 132T, 136T, or 160T libraries.
	Any system attached to the SAN can share these devices.
Fibre Channel	Redundant switch fabrics required.
switch configuration
Fibre Channel	Single-initiator zoning.
switch zoning
Fibre Channel	Dell EMC DS-16B2 (Brocade SilkWorm 3800), Brocade
switches supported	SilkWorm 3200, Brocade SilkWorm 3250, Brocade SilkWorm 3850, or
	Dell EMC DS-24M2 (McData Sphereon 4500).
Fibre Channel	Version 3.1.2a or later for Brocade Silkworm 3200 /3800.
switch firmware	Version 4.2.0b or later for Brocade Silkworm 3250 /3850.
	Version 6.01.00 or later for McData Sphereon 4500.
Fibre Channel	See Table 1-2 to determine which HBAs are supported on your
HBAs supported	PowerEdge server.
Emulex driver version	SCSI port driver 5-2.22a8 or later (Windows 2000), Storport miniport
	driver 5-1.02a3 or later (Windows 2003).
Emulex firmware version	1.90a4 or later
QLogic driver version	SCSI miniport driver 9.00.12 or later (Windows 2000), Storport
	miniport driver 9.00.17 or later (Windows Server 2003).
QLogic BIOS version	1.42 or later
Operating system	Each cluster attached to the SAN must run Windows 2000 Advanced
	Server or Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition.

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