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                                                                                                                     Chapter 7 Cluster Installation and Configuration

The network requirements for clustering are:

•  A unique NetBIOS cluster name

•  Five unique, static IP addresses:

•  two are for the network adapters on the internal network

•  two are for the network adapters on the external network

•  one is for the cluster itself

•  A domain user account for Cluster Service (all nodes must be part of the same domain.)

•  Two network adapters for each node—one for connection to the external network and the

other for the node-to-node internal cluster network. If you do not use two network adapters for
each node, your configuration is unsupported. HCL certification requires a separate private
network adapter.

Disks can be shared by the nodes. The requirements for sharing disks are as follows:

•  Physically attach all shared disks, including the quorum disk, to the shared bus.

•  Make sure that all disks attached to the shared bus are seen from all nodes. You can check this

at the setup level in <Ctrl><M> (the BIOS configuration utility.) See page 77 for installation
information.

•  Assign unique SCSI identification numbers to the SCSI devices and terminate the devices

properly. Refer to the storage enclosure manual about installing and terminating SCSI devices.

•  Configure all shared disks as basic (not dynamic.)

•  Format all partitions on the disks as NTFS.

It is best to use fault-tolerant RAID configurations for all disks. This includes RAID levels 1, 3, 5,
10, 30 or 50.