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3 Preparing Your Systems for Clustering
Before You Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Installation Overview
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Selecting a Domain Model
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configuring the Cluster Nodes as Domain Controllers
. . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configuring the Internal Drives in Your Cluster Nodes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Installing and Configuring the Windows Operating System
. . . . . . . . . . 32
Configuring Windows Networking
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Assigning Static IP Addresses to Your Cluster
Resources and Components
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Configuring IP Addresses for the Private Network
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Verifying Cluster Network Communications
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Configuring the Internet Connection Firewall
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Installing the PERC RAID Adapters
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Updating the Windows Driver for the PERC RAID Adapter
. . . . . . . . 38
Installing and Configuring the Shared Storage System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Clustering PowerVault Storage Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Configuring the PowerVault 22xS Storage System
for Cluster Mode
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Preparing the PERC RAID Adapter for Clustering
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Enabling the Cluster Mode Using the PERC RAID Adapter
. . . . . . . . . 44
Setting the SCSI Host Adapter IDs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Configuring and Managing Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003
Dynamic Disks and Volumes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Naming and Formatting Drives on the
Shared Storage System
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