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www .dell.com | support.dell.com Dell™ PowerEdge™ Cluster FE400 Sy stems Platform Guide.
Notes, Notices, and Cautions NOTE: A NOTE indicates important i nformation that helps you make better use of your computer . 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 potential for propert y damage, personal injury , or death.
Platform Guide 3 This document provides information for installing and connecting peripheral hardwar e, storage, and storage area network (SAN) components for your Dell™ P owerEdge™ Cluster FE400 solution.
4 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com Obtaining More Information See the Dell P owerEdge Cluster FE400 Insta llation and T r oubleshooting Guide for a detailed list of related documentation.
Platform Guide 5 Fibre Channel Switches • Dual (redundant) fabric configurations ar e requir ed. • A maximum of 16 switches may be used in a SAN. • A minimum of two and a maximum of eight Inter - Switch Links (ISLs) may exist between any two directly communicating switches.
6 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com • Operating systems and service packs • Hardwar e, drivers, fi rmware, or BIOS fo r the NICs, HBAs, and any other peripheral hardwar e components .
Platform Guide 7 T able 1-3. PCI Slot Configurations for PowerEdge Cluster Nodes PowerEdge Sy stem Riser Board Option Slot Slot T ype Slot Speed 1550 N/A 1-2 PCI 64 bit, 66 MHz 1650 Any 1 PCI 64 bit, .
8 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com 2500 1-2 PCI 64 bit, 66 MHz 3-5 PCI 64 bit, 33 MHz 6-7 PCI 32 bit, 33 MHz 2550 1-3 PCI 64 bit, 33 MHz 2600 1 PCI 32 bit, 33 MHz 2-5 PCI- X 64 bit, 100.
Platform Guide 9 4-5 PCI- X 64 bit, 100 MHz 6-7 PCI- X 64 bit, 100 MHz 6400 N/A 1 PCI 32 bit, 33 MHz 2-5 PCI 64 bit, 33 MHz 6-7 PCI 64 bit, 66 MHz 6450 N/A 1 PCI 32 bit, 33 MHz 2-5 PCI 64 bit, 33 MHz .
10 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com 1650 Any Emulex LP982 Emulex LP9802 QLogic QLA2340 Install the HBAs in any available PCI slots. 1750 Any Emulex LP982 Emulex LP9802 QLogic QLA2340 Install the HBAs in any available PCI or PCI-X slots.
Platform Guide 11 Attaching Y our Cluster to a Shared Storage Sy stem Through Direct-Attach Configuration This section provides the rules and guidelines for attaching your cluster nodes to the shared storage system using a direct connection (without F ibre Channel switches).
12 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com T able 1-5. Direct-Attached Cl usters Rules and Guidelines Rule/Guideline Description P rimary storage Each W indows 2000 Adva nced Server and W indows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition cluster can support up to 22 unique drive letters for shared logical drives.
Platform Guide 13 Attaching Y our Cluster Shared Storage Sy stem to a SAN This section provides the rules and guidelines for attaching your P owerEdge cluster nodes to the shared storage systems through a Dell | EMC SA N using r edundant F ibre Channel switch fabrics.
14 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com Obtaining More Information See the Dell P owerEdge Cluster FE400 Install ation and T roubleshooting Guide for more information about SAN-attached clusters. Y ou can al so see the Dell Support website at support.
Platform Guide 15 HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetServicesDiskTimeOutV alue The disk T imeOutV alue setting is the timeout value set by W indows for storage system I/O operations. The Dell | EMC F ibre Channel sto rage environment requir es 60 seconds for I/O operations.
16 Platform Guide www .dell.com | support.dell.com e In the Available Adapters box, select the second HBA in the list. f Repeat step c and step d. g Reboot the cluster node. h Repeat step a through step g on each additional node. • The cluster disks are not ini tialized in Disk Management.
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