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Platform Guide 5
This document provides information for installing and connecting peripheral hardware, storage,
and storage area network (SAN) components to your Dell™ PowerEdge™ Cluster FE500W-IA64
solution. The configuration information in this document is specific to the Microsoft
®
Windows
®
Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for 64-bit Itanium-based Systems operating system.
This document covers the following topics:
• Configuration information for installing peripheral hardware components, such as storage
systems, HBAs, NICs, and PCI adapter cards into Cluster FE500W-IA64 configurations
• Configuration rules and guidelines for direct-attached configurations
• Configuration rules and guidelines for SAN-attached configurations
NOTE: Configurations not listed in this document may not be certified or supported by Dell or Microsoft.
NOTE: In this guide and in other cluster documentation, the Microsoft Cluster Service is also referred to
as MSCS.
Supported Cluster Configurations
This section provides information about supported cluster configurations for your PowerEdge
cluster configuration.
Table 1-1 provides a list of supported cluster configurations for the Cluster FE500W-IA64 systems
running Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for 64-bit Itanium-based Systems.
NOTE: Each cluster node must be of the same system model and have two or more processors.
Obtaining More Information
See the
Dell PowerEdge Cluster FE500W-IA64 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
for a detailed
list of related documentation.
Table 1-1. Supported Cluster Configurations
PowerEdge
Cluster
Supported
PowerEdge
Systems
Supported Storage Systems Supported Cluster Interconnect (for the
Private Network)
FE500W-IA64 7250 Dell | EMC CX300
Dell | EMC CX500
Dell | EMC CX700
Any Ethernet NIC supported by
the system.
NOTE: All nodes in the same cluster
must use homogeneous (identical)
Ethernet NICs for the
cluster interconnect.
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