DELL FE300 User Manual
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Rules and Guidelines
The following rules and guidelines described in Table 1-5 apply to SAN-attached clusters.
Ta b l e 1 - 5 .
S A N - A t t a c h e d C l u s t e r s R u l e s a n d G u i d e l i n e s
Rule/Guideline
Description
Primary storage
Each cluster can support up to 22 shared logical disks.
Up to four Dell | EMC Fibre Channel disk arrays are supported on
a SAN.
a SAN.
Secondary storage
Up to two PowerVault™ 136T DLT libraries.
Any system attached to the SAN can share these devices.
Fibre Channel switch
configuration
configuration
Redundant switch fabrics required.
Fibre Channel switch
zoning
zoning
Single-initiator zoning.
Fibre Channel switches
supported
supported
Dell | EMC DS-16B2 (Brocade SilkWorm 3800) or Brocade
SilkWorm 3200.
SilkWorm 3200.
Fibre Channel switch
firmware
firmware
Version 3.0.2a or later.
Fibre Channel HBAs
supported
supported
Emulex LP9002L or QLogic QLA2340.
Emulex driver version
5-2.11a2 or later.
QLogic driver version
8.1.5.20 or later.
Operating system
Each cluster attached to the SAN must run Windows 2000
Advanced Server.
Advanced Server.
Windows 2000 Advanced
Server service pack
Server service pack
Windows 2000 Advanced Server configurations require Service Pack 2
or later.
or later.
Dell | EMC FC4700-2 core
software
software
8.44.51 (with Access Logix™ software) or later.
Dell | EMC FC4500 core
software
software
6.32.14 or later.