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Contents
1 Introduction
Intended Audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Obtaining Technical Assistance
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Overview
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Virtual Servers and Resource Groups
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Quorum Resource
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Shared Storage Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
PowerEdge™ Cluster SE500W Solution
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Operating Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Storage System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Hardware and Software Technologies
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Cluster Components
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
System Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Cluster Nodes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Cluster storage
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Other Documents You May Need
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2 Cabling Your Cluster Hardware
Cabling for the Cluster SE500W Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Cabling One PowerVault™ 22xS Shared Storage System
to a Cluster SE500W
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Cabling Two PowerVault 22xS Storage Systems
to a Cluster SE500W
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Cabling Three or Four PowerVault 22xS Storage Systems
to a Cluster SE500W
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Cabling Your Public and Private Networks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Cabling Your Public Network
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Cabling Your Private Network
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
NIC Teaming
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Cabling the Mouse, Keyboard, and Monitor
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Power Cabling for the PowerEdge Cluster SE500W Solution
. . . . . . . . . . 24
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