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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 Failover Cluster must be installed with the same
release, edition, service pack, and processor architecture of the Windows
Server operating system. 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 Dell Cluster Configuration Support Matrix on the Dell High
Availability website at www.dell.com/ha.
For a general overview of cluster configuration tasks and more detailed
information about deploying your cluster with Windows Server 2003
operating system, see the Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide located on the Dell
Support website at support.dell.com.
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 located on the Dell
Support website at support.dell.com.
The following sub-sections describe steps that must be taken to enable
communication between the cluster nodes and your shared Dell/EMC
CX4-series Fibre Channel storage array, and to present disks from the storage
array to the cluster.