HP F100 manual Preinstallation Guidelines

18 HP ProLiant Cluster F100 Installation Guide

For more information, refer to the HP Zoning User's Guide Version 3.0 at the HP High Availability website (http://www.hp.com/servers/proliant/highavailability).

The installation and setup of the ProLiant cluster is described in the following sections:

•Preinstallation guidelines (on page 18)

•Installing the hardware (on page 20), including:

−Cluster nodes

−Storage system

−Cluster interconnect

•Installing the software (on page 24), including:

−HP SmartStart

−Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Enterprise Edition or Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server

−Systems Insight Manager (optional)

•Validating the cluster (on page 30)

IMPORTANT: Refer to the MSCS support matrix for the supported hardware, software, cluster-supported servers, and firmware version levels the cluster requires. To obtain the matrix, access the High Availability website (http://www.hp.com/servers/proliant/highavailability), click Cluster configuration support matrices in the Related Information pane. Select the operating system, then the storage system for your configuration to display the matrix.

Preinstallation Guidelines

Before installing MSCS on a cluster node, write down the answers to the following questions.

•Are you forming or joining a cluster?

•What is the cluster name?