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2-2 Dell PowerVault Systems Storage Area Network (SAN) Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
DELL CONFIDENTIAL - Preliminary 3/16/00
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NetWare 4.2 and 5.
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with the appropriate service pack (see the Release Notes on the
Dell PowerVault Fiber Channels Utilities Version 2.0
CD for the correct service pack)
are supported. See http://support.dell.com for the latest information about sup-
ported operating systems. Dell does not support redundant fabrics and path failover
for NetWare.
The Dell OpenManage Storage Consolidation software does not support NetWare vol-
umes. SAN requires that the administrator manually control the mounting of SAN
volumes on each NetWare server.
Table 2-2 lists the maximum NetWare configurations that are supported by SAN 2.0.
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Maximum of four Microsoft Cluster
Server (MSCS) clusters
Each MSCS pair with its PowerVault
650F/651F must be in its own zone,
see the latest clustering documenta-
tion for your systems.
Maximum of four PowerVault Fibre
Channel switches per SAN
Four is the maximum number of
switches
for redundant configurations; two is the
maximum number for non-redundant
configurations.
Maximum of 10 servers running Net-
Ware; a maximum of 12 servers are
supported if it is a backup only SAN.
See the release notes on the
Dell Power-
Vault Fibre Channel Utilities Version 2.0
CD or the
Dell PowerVault Fibre Channel
Update Version 2.0
CD
for the latest list of
servers and revision levels required.
One Windows NT system is required
for managing storage
The Windows NT system must be in a
LAN with a NetWare server. At least one
of the SAN attached NetWare servers
must run the Data Managed Node for
NetWare.