Adding Peripherals Required for PowerEdge 6300 or 6350
WARNING: Hardware installation should be performed only by trained service technicians. Before working inside the computer system, see the safety instructions in your PowerEdge system documentation to avoid a situation that could cause serious injury or death.
The following list provides PCI slot assignment information for buses, RAID control- lers, NICs, and a DRAC 2.
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PCI buses
—PCI bus 1: PCI slots 1 through 3 are
—PCI bus 2: PCI slots 4 through 7 are
RAID controllers
—RAID controllers can be installed in any available PCI slot
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—If you use multiple RAID controllers and there are slots available, Dell recom- mends installing the RAID controllers on separate PCI buses to balance the load on the system
NICs
—You can install NICs in any available PCI slot
DRAC 2
—If you are currently using a DRAC 2 or plan to use one in the future, install it in PCI slot 3
NOTE: To make sure that the SCSI or RAID controller attached to the boot drives initializes first, you may have to change the scan order of the PCI bus, if the BIOS sup- ports this option, or change the order of the RAID controllers, NIC(s), and DRAC 2. Performing these tasks ensures that Windows numbers the boot drives in the proper sequence.
PowerEdge Cluster SE200 and SL200
PowerEdge Clusters SE200 and SL200 support clustering with Windows NT
Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition or Windows 2000 Advanced Server. See the following sections for information on supported configurations and SPs for your Windows oper- ating system.
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Installation instructions for hardware configurations using Windows 2000 Advanced Server can be found in the Dell PowerEdge Cluster SE100, SE200, and SL200 Installa- tion and Troubleshooting Guide.
4 Dell PowerEdge Cluster SE100, SE200, and SL200 Platform Guide
