6 HP ProLiant Cluster F100 Installation Guide

•One supported HBA ("Host Bus Adapters" on page 8, "host bus adapter" on page 40) per server

•NICs

•Optical transceivers (on page 9)

•Cables (on page 11):

−Multi-mode Fibre Channel cable

−Ethernet crossover cable

−Network (LAN) cable

•Software solution components:

−Microsoft® operating system ("Microsoft Software" on page 12)

−HP SmartStart CD (on page 13) (included in the Server Setup and Management Pack)

−HP Modular Smart Array 1000 Support Software CD (on page 14) (if using the MSA1000 storage system)

−Systems Insight Manager (on page 14) (optional)

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.

Guidelines for Multiple Clusters

Multiple-cluster configuration is available for the MSA1000 storage systems. The F100 for MSA1000 can have the following:

•Two-node clusters for Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server

•Eight-node clusters for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Enterprise Edition

•Five MSA1000 storage systems per cluster