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Preparing Your Systems for Clustering 37
NOTE: For Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters, you can also use the
Cluster Validation Wizard.
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Configure highly-available applications and services on your failover
cluster. Depending on your configuration, this may also require providing
additional LUNs to the cluster or creating new cluster resource groups.
Test the failover capabilities of the new resources.
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Configure client systems to access the highly available applications and
services that are hosted on your failover cluster.
Installation Overview
Each node in your Dell Windows Server failover cluster must have the same
release, edition, service pack, and processor architecture of the Windows
Server operating system installed. For example, all nodes in your cluster may
be configured with Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition. If the
operating system varies among nodes, it is not possible to configure a failover
cluster successfully. It is recommended to establish server roles prior to
configuring a failover cluster, depending on the operating system configured
on your cluster.
For a list of Dell PowerEdge Servers, Fibre Channel HBAs and switches, and
recommended list of operating system variants, specific driver and firmware
revisions, see the Cluster Configuration Support Matrices located on Dell
High Availablity Cluster website at dell.com/ha.
For more information on deploying your cluster with Windows Server 2003
operating systems, see the Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide. For more information on
deploying your cluster with Windows Server 2008 operating systems, see the
Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Installation and
Troubleshooting Guide.
The following sub-sections describe steps that must be taken to enable
communication between the cluster nodes and your shared Dell/EMC AX4-5
Fibre Channel storage array, and to present disks from the storage array to the
cluster. Install and configure the following components on each node:
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The Fibre Channel HBA(s) and driver on each cluster node
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EMC PowerPath on each cluster node
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Zoning, if applicable