3com FE100 Manual De Usuario

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PowerEdge Cluster FE100 Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Minimum System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Basic Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Adding Peripherals Required for Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

Cabling the Cluster Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

Setting Up the Internal SCSI Hard-Disk Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

Configuring the QLogic Host Bus Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

Installing and Configuring Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition . . . . . . . . . 1-9

Configuring the Cluster NICs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9

Installing the SCSI Miniport Driver for the QLogic Host Bus Adapters . . . . . . 1-9

Installing the Windows NT Service Pack and SCSI Hotfix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9

Installing the Device Driver for the ATI Video Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

Installing Dell OpenManage ATF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

Installing the Dell OpenManage Data Agent and Data Supervisor or
Data Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-10

Setting Up the Shared Storage Subsystem Fibre Channel Disk Drives . . . . . 1-11

Installing and Configuring the Microsoft Cluster Server Software. . . . . . . . . 1-11

Applying the Cluster Hotfix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11

Checking the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12

Configuring the Dell OpenManage Data Supervisor or
Data Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12

Installing Applications Software on the PowerEdge Cluster FE100. . . . . . . . 1-12

Powering Up the PowerEdge Cluster FE100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12