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CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2008 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of these materials in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell, the DELL logo, PowerEdge, and PowerVault are trademarks of Dell Inc.; Active Directory, Microsoft, Windows, Windows Server, Windows XP and Windows NT are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/ or other countries.; EMC, Navisphere, and PowerPath are registered trademarks and MirrorView, SAN Copy, and SnapView are trademarks of EMC Corporation. 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October 2008 Rev A00 Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Cluster Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Cluster Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Cluster Nodes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Cluster Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Supported Cluster Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Direct-Attached Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 SAN-Attached Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Other Documents You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2 Cabling Your Cluster Hardware . . . . . . . . 15 Cabling the Mouse, Keyboard, and Monitor . . . . . . 15 Cabling the Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Cabling Your Cluster for Public and Private Networks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Cabling the Public Network . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Cabling the Private Network . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 NIC Teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Cabling the Storage Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Cabling Storage for Your Direct-Attached Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Cabling Storage for Your SAN-Attached Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Contents 3 Preparing Your Systems for Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Cluster Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Installation Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Installing the Fibre Channel HBAs. . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Installing the Fibre Channel HBA Drivers. . . . . . 42 Implementing Zoning on a Fibre Channel Switched Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Using Zoning in SAN Configurations Containing Multiple Hosts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Using Worldwide Port Name Zoning . . . . . . . . 43 Installing and Configuring the Shared Storage System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Storage Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Navisphere Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Navisphere Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 EMC PowerPath. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Enabling Access Control and Creating Storage Groups Using Navisphere . . . . . . . . . 49 Configuring the Hard Drives on the Shared Storage System(s). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Optional Storage Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Updating a Dell/EMC Storage System for Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Installing and Configuring a Failover Cluster . . . . . . 53 Contents A Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 B Zoning Configuration Form . . . . . . . . . . . 61 C Cluster Data Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Contents Contents Introduction A Dell™ Failover Cluster combines specific hardware and software components to provide enhanced availability for applications and services that are run on the cluster. A Failover Cluster is designed to reduce the possibility of any single point of failure within the system that can cause the clustered applications or services to become unavailable. It is recommended that you use redundant components like server and storage power supplies, connections between the nodes and the storage array(s), and connections to client systems or other servers in a multi-tier enterprise application architecture in your cluster. This document provides information to configure your Dell/EMC CX4-series fibre channel storage arrays with one or more Failover Clusters. It provides specific configuration tasks that enable you to deploy the shared storage for your cluster. For more information on deploying your cluster with Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 operating systems, see the Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Installation and Troubleshooting...