Dell PowerVault 770N (Deskside NAS Appliance) - Manual (Page 23)

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Preparing Your Systems for Clustering
Dell™ PowerVault™ NAS Fibre Channel Cluster Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
Before You Begin Configuring the Hard Drives on the Shared Storage System(s)
Installation Overview Updating a Dell | EMC Storage System for Clustering
Selecting a Domain Model Installing and Configuring MSCS
Configuring Windows Networking Verifying Cluster Functionality
Installing the Fibre Channel HBAs Verifying Cluster Resource Availability
Installing the Fibre Channel HBA Drivers Using Shadow Copies of Shared Folders
Installing and Configuring the Shared Storage System
Before You Begin
Before you configure your storage system hardware and software for a cluster configuration:
1. Ensure that your site can handle the power requirements of the cluster equipment.
Contact your sales representative for information about your region's power requirements.
CAUTION: Only trained service technicians are authorized to remove and access any of the components inside the system.
See your System Information Guide for complete information about safety precautions, working inside the computer, and
protecting against electrostatic discharge.
2. Ensure that the following components are installed in your cluster hardware:
NICs
HBAs
SCSI hard drives
Fibre Channel hard drives
Any additional peripheral components
RAID controllers
3. Cable the system hardware for clustering.
See " Cabling Your Cluster Hardware " for more information.
4. Configure the storage system(s) as described in your Dell | EMC storage system documentation.
5. If you are using hardware-based RAID for the internal SCSI hard drives, configure the hard drives using the controller's BIOS utility.
Installation Overview
This section provides installation overview procedures for configuring your cluster running the Microsoft® Windows® Storage Server 2003
operating system.
1. Ensure that your cluster meets the requirements as described in " Before You Begin ."
2. Select a domain model that is appropriate for your corporate network and operating system.