6 HP ProLiant Cluster F100 Installation Guide
• One supported HBA ("Host Bus Adapters" on page 8, "host bus adapter" on
page 40
) per server
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•
NICs
Optical transceivers (on page 9
)
• Cables (on page 11
):
− Multi-mode Fibre Channel cable
− Ethernet crossover cable
− Network (LAN) cable
• Software solution components:
− Microsoft® operating system ("Microsoft Software" on page 12
)
− HP SmartStart CD (on page 13) (included in the Server Setup and
Management Pack)
− HP Modular Smart Array 1000 Support Software CD (on page 14
) (if
using the MSA1000 storage system)
− Systems Insight Manager (on page 14
) (optional)
IMPORTANT: Refer to the MSCS support matrix for the supported
hardware, software, cluster-supported servers, and firmware version
levels the cluster requires. To obtain the matrix, access the High
Availability website (http://www.hp.com/servers/proliant/highavailability
),
click Cluster configuration support matrices in the Related
Information pane. Select the operating system, then the storage system
for your configuration to display the matrix.
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Guidelines for Multiple Clusters
Multiple-cluster configuration is available for the MSA1000 storage systems.
The F100 for MSA1000 can have the following:
Two-node clusters for Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Advanced Server
Eight-node clusters for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Enterprise
Edition
Five MSA1000 storage systems per cluster