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Installing and Configuring Your Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Network . . . . . 6-6
Overview of a Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Network Installation. . . . . . 6-6
Updating the Host Bus Adapter Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Installing the Dell OpenManage Storage Management Software
for the PowerVault Storage System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
Configuring Shared Drives Using the Windows 2000
Disk Management Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
Assigning Drive Letters and Formatting Drives
on the Shared Storage System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
Using the Windows 2000 Dynamic Disks and Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
Verifying Cluster Readiness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
Installing and Configuring the Windows 2000 Cluster Service . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
Cluster Quorum Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
Cluster Resource Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
Adding Additional Applications and Data to the Quorum Disk . . . . . . . . 6-14
Verifying Cluster Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
Verifying Cluster Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
Verifying Cluster Resource Availability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
Configuring the Dell OpenManage
Manage Node (Data Agent) for a Cluster Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
Configuring the Data Agent for Cluster Failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-16
Configuring Failover and Failback Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18
Failover Support Through Four-Node Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18
Modifying the Failover Sequence of the Disk Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-19
Chapter 7 Installing Cluster Management
and Systems Management Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Microsoft Cluster Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Running Cluster Administrator on a Cluster Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Installing Cluster Administrator on a Remote Console Running
Windows 2000 Professional. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Installing the Cluster Administrator on a Remote Console Running
Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Server Editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Installing Cluster Administrator for Windows 2000 on a Remote Console
Running Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Installing Dell OpenManage Cluster Assistant With ClusterX (Optional). . . . . . . . . 7-3
Chapter 8 Upgrading Your PowerEdge
System to a Cluster Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
Upgrading Your PowerEdge System to a PowerEdge Cluster FE100/FL100
Datacenter Server Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
Installing the Appropriate Version of
Windows 2000 on Your PowerEdge System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2