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Dell™ PowerEdge™ Cluster SE100, SE200, and SL200
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Notes, Notices, Cautions, and Warnings Throughout this guide, blocks of text may be accompanied by an icon and printed in bold type or in italic type. These blocks are notes, notices, cautions, and warnings, and they are used as follows: NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer system. NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potenti
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Contents PowerEdge Cluster SE100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Windows 2000 Advanced Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Adding Peripherals Required for PowerEdge 2300, 4300, or 4350 . . . . .
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Dell™ PowerEdge™ Cluster SE100, SE200, and SL200 Platform Guide ® ® This guide provides the latest information on using Microsoft Windows NT Server ® 4.0, Enterprise Edition operating system and Windows 2000 Advanced Server oper- ating system for the following Dell PowerEdge Cluster products and components: • Dell PowerEdge Cluster SE100 — Servers: PowerEdge 2300, 4300, 4350, 6300, and 6350 — Storage: PowerVault™ 200S, 201S, 210S, and 211S — Cluster interconnect: Fast Ethernet • Dell PowerEdge
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PowerEdge Cluster SE100 The PowerEdge Cluster SE100 supports clustering with Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition or Windows 2000 Advanced Server. See the following sections for information on supported configurations and service packs (SPs) for your Windows operating system. Windows 2000 Advanced Server Installation instructions for hardware configurations using Windows 2000 Advanced Server can be found in the Dell PowerEdge Cluster SE100, SE200, and SL200 Installa- tion and Troublesho
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Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack Support Windows NT SP 6.0a or later is recommended for PowerEdge Cluster SE100 systems. NOTE: Both nodes must be configured with similar drivers (network interface control- lers [NIC], redundant array of independent disks [RAID] controller, and so on), utilities (Dell OpenManage™ suite, PowerConsole, and so on), firmware (PowerEdge Expand- able RAID Controller 2/SC [PERC 2/SC]), and the latest basic input/output system [BIOS] for each system. When planning for and
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Adding Peripherals Required for PowerEdge 6300 or 6350 WARNING: Hardware installation should be performed only by trained service technicians. Before working inside the computer system, see the safety instructions in your PowerEdge system documentation to avoid a situation that could cause serious injury or death. The following list provides PCI slot assignment information for buses, RAID control- lers, NICs, and a DRAC 2. • PCI buses — PCI bus 1: PCI slots 1 through 3 are 32-bit, 33-megahe
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Your PowerEdge Cluster SE200 and SL200 system supports the following PowerEdge servers as cluster nodes in homogeneous pairs (same server) with Windows 2000 Advanced Server: • PowerEdge 2400 • PowerEdge 2450 • PowerEdge 4400 • PowerEdge 6400 • PowerEdge 6450 • PowerEdge 8450 NOTE: Heterogeneous server clusters (mixed server models) are not supported with PowerEdge Cluster SE200 and SL200 configurations running Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition Your Power
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Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack Support Windows NT SP 6.0a or later is recommended for PowerEdge Cluster SE200 and SL200 systems. NOTE: Both nodes must be configured with similar drivers (NIC, RAID controller, and so on), utilities (Dell OpenManage suite, PowerConsole, and so on), firmware (PERC 2/DC), and the latest BIOS for each system. When planning for and testing your heterogeneous configurations, ensure that ade- quate resources are available on the server node to run all of the application
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• NICs — You can install NICs in any available PCI slot. • DRAC 2 — If you are currently using a DRAC 2 or plan to use one in the future, install it in PCI slot 6. NOTE: To make sure that the SCSI or RAID controller attached to the boot drives initializes first, you may have to change the scan order of the PCI bus, if the BIOS sup- ports this option, or change the order of the RAID, NIC, and DRAC 2. Performing these tasks ensures that Windows numbers the boot drives in the proper sequence. Ad
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Adding Peripherals Required for PowerEdge 4400 Cluster Nodes WARNING: Hardware installation should be performed only by trained service technicians. Before working inside the computer system, see the safety instructions in your PowerEdge system documentation to avoid a situation that could cause serious injury or death. The following list provides PCI slot assignment information for the system’s PCI buses, RAID controllers, NICs, and DRAC 2. • PCI buses — PCI bus 1: PCI slots 1 and 2 are 6
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• PCI buses — PCI bus 1: PCI slot 1 is 32-bit, 33-MHz — PCI bus 2: PCI slots 2 through 5 are 64-bit, 33-MHz — PCI bus 3: PCI slots 6 and 7 are 64-bit, 33/66-MHz • RAID controllers — RAID controllers can be installed in any available 32-bit, 33-MHz or 64-bit, 33-MHz PCI slot. — If you use multiple RAID controllers and there are available PCI slots, Dell recommends installing the RAID controllers on separate PCI buses to bal- ance the load on the system. NOTICE: The PERC 2/DC is keyed to prevent
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• RAID controllers — Install the RAID controller for the server’s internal drives in PCI slot 1. — Install additional RAID controllers in any available 64-bit, 33-MHz or 32-bit, 33-MHz PCI slot. — If you use multiple RAID controllers and there are available slots, Dell recom- mends installing the RAID controllers on separate 64-bit PCI buses to balance the load on the system. NOTICE: The PERC 2/DC is keyed to prevent installation in a 64-bit 33/ 66 MHz PCI slot. NOTE: The PERC 2/DC comes fitte
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• Storage array description for each storage array • Service tag information for each cluster component • Connectivity information to indicate the SCSI connector (A or B) on each shared storage system that connects to the RAID controller channel (A or B) on each shared storage system; see the PowerEdge Cluster Configuration Matrix for spe- cific instructions • Each cluster node’s PCI slot number, a description of each slot, the adapters installed in each slot, and a usage description for each
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PowerEdge Cluster SE100 Configuration Matrix Cluster Type PowerEdge Cluster SE100 Cluster Name Installer Date Installed Applications Location Notes Node PowerEdge Server Model Windows NT Name Node 1 Node 2 Storage Array Description (Drive letters, RAID types, applications/data installed) Storage 1 Storage 2 Component: Node 1 Node 2 Storage 1 1 Storage 2 2 Service Tag System Storage 1 Storage 2 Node 1, controller 1 Node 2, controller 1 Node 1, controller 2 Node 2, controller 2 PCI Slot PCI Slot
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PowerEdge Cluster SE200/SL200 Configuration Matrix Cluster Type PowerEdge Cluster SE200 or SL200 Cluster Name Installer Date Installed Applications Location Notes Node PowerEdge Server Model Windows NT Name Node 1 Node 2 Storage Array Description (Drive letters, RAID types, applications/data installed) Storage 1 Storage 2 Storage 3 Storage 4 Node 1 Node 2 Storage 1 Storage 2 Storage 3 Storage 4 Component: Service Tag System Storage 1 Storage 2 Storage 3 Storage 4 Node 1, controller 1 Node 2, co
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