DELL EMC AX4-5 Manuale Utente

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Preparing Your Systems for Clustering

4 Establish the physical network topology and the TCP/IP settings for 

network adapters on each server node to provide access to the cluster 
public and private networks. 

5 Configure each cluster node as a member in the same Microsoft

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Windows Active Directory

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 Domain. 

 

NOTE: 

You can configure the cluster nodes as Domain Controllers. For more 

information, see “Selecting a Domain Model” section of Dell Failover Clusters 
with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide 
or Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Installation and 
Troubleshooting Guide 

located on the Dell Support website at 

support.dell.com/manuals.

6 Establish the physical storage topology and any required storage network 

settings to provide connectivity between the storage array and the servers 
that will be configured as cluster nodes. Configure the storage system(s) as 
described in your storage system documentation. 

7 Use storage array management tools to create at least one logical unit 

number (LUN). The LUN is used as a cluster Quorum disk for Windows 
Server 2003 Failover cluster and as a Witness disk for Windows Server 
2008 Failover cluster. Ensure that this LUN is presented to the servers that 
will be configured as cluster nodes. 

 

NOTE: 

For security reasons, it is recommended that you configure the LUN on 

a single node as mentioned in step 8 when you are setting up the cluster. 
Later, you can configure the LUN as mentioned in step 9 so that other cluster 
nodes can access it.

8 Select one of the systems and form a new failover cluster by configuring 

the cluster name, cluster management IP, and quorum resource. For more 
information, see "Preparing Your Systems for Clustering" on page 35. 

 

NOTE: 

For Windows Server

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 2008 Failover Clusters, run the 

Cluster 

Validation Wizard to ensure that your system is ready to form the cluster. 

9 Join the remaining node(s) to the failover cluster. For more information, 

10 Configure roles for cluster networks. Take any network interfaces that are 

used for iSCSI storage (or for other purposes outside of the cluster) out of 
the control of the cluster. 

11 Test the failover capabilities of your new cluster.