Manual de instrucciones de Dell PowerEdge FE100/FL100

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CHAPTER 2
Installation Overview
This chapter provides an overview of installing a PowerEdge FE100/FL100 and
FE200/FL200 Cluster configuration with Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition 4.0
or Windows 2000 Advanced Server operating systems. More detailed instructions
are provided later in this document.
NOTICE: Before installing the cluster, ensure that your site can handle the
power requirements of the cluster equipment. Contact your Dell sales rep-
resentative for information about your region

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2. Cable the system hardware for clustering. If you are using Dell PowerVault Fibre Channel switches, see the Dell PowerEdge Cluster F-Series SAN Guide for more information. 3. If you are using hardware-based RAID for the internal SCSI hard-disk drives, con- figure them using the controller’s basic input/output system (BIOS) utility. 4. Perform the low-level configuration of the HBAs. 5. Install and configure the Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Edition operating system on each node. 6. Configu

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d. Install Dell OpenManage Array Manager on each node. A dialog box appears, asking you if the PowerVault 660F will be used in an MSCS cluster without storage consolidation. Select Yes. e. Reboot node A. 12. Shut down node B. 13. From node A, configure the RAID level on the storage system. 14. Reboot node A. 15. From node A, partition, format, and assign drive letters to the Fibre Channel hard- disk drives in the storage system using Windows NT Disk Administrator. 16. On node A, verify disk acce

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NOTE: If you are installing a cluster configuration with multiple clusters attached to a single PowerVault Fibre Channel storage system, see the cluster consolidation basic installation procedure in the Dell PowerEdge Cluster F-Series SAN Guide. 1. Add NICs, HBAs, RAID controllers (optional), SCSI hard-disk drives, Fibre Channel hard-disk drives, and other components to the existing system hardware to meet the requirements for a PowerEdge Cluster F-Series configuration. NOTE: For more informatio

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For the PowerEdge Cluster FE200/FL200, perform the following steps: a. Install QLDirect on each node and reboot. b. Set the failover path in the QLogic Fibre Channel Configuration software on each node. c. Reboot each node. d. Install Dell OpenManage Array Manager on each node. A dialog box appears, asking you if the PowerVault 660F will be used in an MSCS cluster without storage consolidation. Select Yes. e. Reboot node A. 11. Shut down node B. 12. From node A, configure the RAID level on the s

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