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www .dell.com | support.dell.com Dell™ PowerEdge™ Cluster FE400 Sy stems Platform Guide[...]
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Notes, Notices, and Cautions NOTE: A NOTE indicates important i nformation that helps you make better use of your computer . NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potential for propert y damage, personal injury , or death. _______________[...]
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Platform Guide 3 This document provides information for installing and connecting peripheral hardwar e, storage, and storage area network (SAN) components for your Dell™ P owerEdge™ Cluster FE400 solution. The configuration information in this do cument is specific to the Microsoft ® W indows ® 2000 Advanced Server and W indows Server 2003, E[...]
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4 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com Obtaining More Information See the Dell P owerEdge Cluster FE400 Insta llation and T r oubleshooting Guide for a detailed list of related documentation. High-A vailability Cluster Configurations This section provides information about the su pported operating systems, HBAs, and HBA drivers for your [...]
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Platform Guide 5 Fibre Channel Switches • Dual (redundant) fabric configurations ar e requir ed. • A maximum of 16 switches may be used in a SAN. • A minimum of two and a maximum of eight Inter - Switch Links (ISLs) may exist between any two directly communicating switches. A single IS L is permitted only when connecting to a remote switch in[...]
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6 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com • Operating systems and service packs • Hardwar e, drivers, fi rmware, or BIOS fo r the NICs, HBAs, and any other peripheral hardwar e components • Systems management software, such as Dell OpenManage™ systems management softwar e and EMC Navisphere ® storage management software Maximum Dis[...]
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Platform Guide 7 T able 1-3. PCI Slot Configurations for PowerEdge Cluster Nodes PowerEdge Sy stem Riser Board Option Slot Slot T ype Slot Speed 1550 N/A 1-2 PCI 64 bit, 66 MHz 1650 Any 1 PCI 64 bit, 66 MHz or 32 bit, 33 MHz 2 PCI 64 bit, 66 MHz 1750 Any 1 PCI- X or PCI 64 bit, 133 MHz PCI- X or 64 bit, 33 MHz PCI 2 PCI- X 64 bit, 133 MHz 1800 N/A [...]
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8 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com 2500 1-2 PCI 64 bit, 66 MHz 3-5 PCI 64 bit, 33 MHz 6-7 PCI 32 bit, 33 MHz 2550 1-3 PCI 64 bit, 33 MHz 2600 1 PCI 32 bit, 33 MHz 2-5 PCI- X 64 bit, 100 MHz 6-7 PXI- X 64 bit, 133 MHz 2650 1 PCI- X 64 bit, 100 MHz 2-3 PXI- X 64 bit, 133 MHz NOTE: Slot 1 must be empty for Slot 2 to attain an operating [...]
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Platform Guide 9 4-5 PCI- X 64 bit, 100 MHz 6-7 PCI- X 64 bit, 100 MHz 6400 N/A 1 PCI 32 bit, 33 MHz 2-5 PCI 64 bit, 33 MHz 6-7 PCI 64 bit, 66 MHz 6450 N/A 1 PCI 32 bit, 33 MHz 2-5 PCI 64 bit, 33 MHz 6-7 PCI 64 bit, 66 MHz 6600 N/A 1 PCI 32 bit, 33 MHz 2-3 PCI- X 64 bit, 100 MHz 4-5 PCI- X 64 bit, 100 MHz 6-7 PCI- X 64 bit, 100 MHz 8-9 PCI- X 64 bi[...]
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10 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com 1650 Any Emulex LP982 Emulex LP9802 QLogic QLA2340 Install the HBAs in any available PCI slots. 1750 Any Emulex LP982 Emulex LP9802 QLogic QLA2340 Install the HBAs in any available PCI or PCI-X slots. 1800 N/A Emulex LP982 Emulex LP9802 QLogic QLA2340 Install the HBAs in PCI/PCI- X slots 1, 5, or 6[...]
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Platform Guide 11 Attaching Y our Cluster to a Shared Storage Sy stem Through Direct-Attach Configuration This section provides the rules and guidelines for attaching your cluster nodes to the shared storage system using a direct connection (without F ibre Channel switches). In a direct-attach configuration, both cluster no des ar e connected direc[...]
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12 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com T able 1-5. Direct-Attached Cl usters Rules and Guidelines Rule/Guideline Description P rimary storage Each W indows 2000 Adva nced Server and W indows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition cluster can support up to 22 unique drive letters for shared logical drives. W indows Server 2003 can support addit[...]
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Platform Guide 13 Attaching Y our Cluster Shared Storage Sy stem to a SAN This section provides the rules and guidelines for attaching your P owerEdge cluster nodes to the shared storage systems through a Dell | EMC SA N using r edundant F ibre Channel switch fabrics. Rules and Guidelines The rules and guidelines described in T able 1-6 apply to SA[...]
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14 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com Obtaining More Information See the Dell P owerEdge Cluster FE400 Install ation and T roubleshooting Guide for more information about SAN-attached clusters. Y ou can al so see the Dell Support website at support.dell.com . Best Practices This section provides best pract ices for troubleshooting issu[...]
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Platform Guide 15 HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetServicesDiskTimeOutV alue The disk T imeOutV alue setting is the timeout value set by W indows for storage system I/O operations. The Dell | EMC F ibre Channel sto rage environment requir es 60 seconds for I/O operations. When you run the Cluster Conf iguration wizar d , the wizard sets the T imeOut[...]
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16 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com e In the Available Adapters box, select the second HBA in the list. f Repeat step c and step d. g Reboot the cluster node. h Repeat step a through step g on each additional node. • The cluster disks are not ini tialized in Disk Management. On clusters running W indows Server 2003, Disk Management[...]