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1 Introduction
1.1
The TruCluster Server Product ..................................... 1–1
1.2
Memory Requirements ...............................................
1–2
1.3
Minimum Disk Requirements ...................................... 1–2
1.3.1
Disks Needed for Installation .................................. 1–2
1.3.1.1
Tru64 UNIX Operating System Disk ..................... 1–2
1.3.1.2
Clusterwide Disk(s) ......................................... 1–3
1.3.1.3
Member Boot Disk .......................................... 1–3
1.3.1.4
Quorum Disk .................................................
1–4
1.4
Generic Two-Node Cluster ........................................... 1–4
1.5
Growing a Cluster from Minimum Storage to a NSPOF
Cluster ..................................................................
1–6
1.5.1
Two-Node Clusters Using an UltraSCSI BA356 Storage
Shelf and Minimum Disk Configurations .................... 1–7
1.5.2
Two-Node Clusters Using UltraSCSI BA356 Storage Units
with Increased Disk Configurations .......................... 1–9
1.5.3
Two-Node Configurations with UltraSCSI BA356 Storage
Units and Dual SCSI Buses .................................... 1–11
1.5.4
Using Hardware RAID to Mirror the Clusterwide Root
File System and Member System Boot Disks ................ 1–12
1.5.5
Creating a NSPOF Cluster ..................................... 1–14
1.6
Overview of Setting Up the TruCluster Server Hardware
Configuration .......................................................... 1–16
2 Hardware Requirements and Restrictions
2.1
TruCluster Server Member System Requirements .............. 2–1
2.2
Memory Channel Restrictions ...................................... 2–3
2.3
Host Bus Adapter Restrictions ..................................... 2–5
2.3.1
Fibre Channel Requirements and Restrictions .............. 2–5
2.3.2
KZPSA-BB SCSI Adapter Restrictions ....................... 2–8
2.3.3
KZPBA-CB SCSI Bus Adapter Restrictions ................. 2–9
2.4
Disk Device Restrictions ............................................. 2–9
2.5
RAID Array Controller Restrictions ............................... 2–9
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