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Cluster Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Cabling the PowerEdge Cluster FE100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Installing Optical Fiber Interface Cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Expanding the PowerVault 65xF Storage System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
NIC Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Power Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Connecting Standby Power Supplies in the PowerVault System . . . . . . . . . . 2-5
Mouse, Keyboard, and Monitor Cabling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7
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Low-Level Software Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Hard Loop ID for the QLogic Host Bus Adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
RAID Level for the Shared Storage Subsystem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
RAID Level for the Internal Hard-Disk Drives (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
High-Level Software Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Installing HP OpenView Network Node Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Configuring the Dell OpenManage Managed Node Agent in a Cluster. . . . . . 3-3
Running the Dell OpenManage Data Agent as a Cluster Resource. . . . . . . . . 3-4
Running Dell OpenManage Data Administrator in a Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Running Dell OpenManage Data Supervisor in a Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Running Dell OpenManage ATF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Choosing a Domain Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Static IP Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6
Naming and Formatting Shared Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7
Using the ftdisk Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
SCSI Miniport Driver for the QLogic Host Bus Adapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
Driver for the Optional PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
Updating the Windows NT Driver for Intel NICs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9
Adjusting the Paging File Size and Registry Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9
Changing the IP Address of a Node. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9
Verifying the Cluster Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Cluster Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
QLogic Host Bus Adapter Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10
Optional RAID Controller Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
Shared Storage Subsystem Drive Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
Verifying the Windows NT Service Pack Version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
Cluster Network Communications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
Cluster Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12
Availability of Cluster Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12