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12 Configure highly-available applications and services on your Failover Cluster. Depending on your configuration, this may also require providing additional LUNs to the cluster or creating new cluster resource groups. Test the failover capabilities of the new resources. 13 Configure client systems to access the highly-available applications and services that are hosted on your failover cluster. Installation Overview Each node in your Dell Failover Cluster must be installed with the same release, edition, service pack, and processor architecture of the Windows Server operating system. For example, all nodes in your cluster may be configured with Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition. If the operating system varies among nodes, it is not possible to configure a Failover Cluster successfully. It is recommended to establish server roles prior to configuring a Failover Cluster, depending on the operating system configured on your cluster. For a list of Dell PowerEdge Servers, Fibre Channel HBAs and switches, and recommended list of operating system variants, specific driver and firmware revisions, see the Dell Cluster Configuration Support Matrix on the Dell High Availability website at www.dell.com/ha. For a general overview of cluster configuration tasks and more detailed information about deploying your cluster with Windows Server 2003 operating system, see the Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide located on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. For more information on deploying your cluster with Windows Server 2008 operating systems, see the Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide located on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. The following sub-sections describe steps that must be taken to enable communication between the cluster nodes and your shared Dell/EMC CX4-series Fibre Channel storage array, and to present disks from the storage array to the cluster. Preparing Your Systems for Clustering 41

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Preparing Your Systems for Clustering
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12
Configure highly-available applications and services on your Failover
Cluster. Depending on your configuration, this may also require providing
additional LUNs to the cluster or creating new cluster resource groups.
Test the failover capabilities of the new resources.
13
Configure client systems to access the highly-available applications and
services that are hosted on your failover cluster.
Installation Overview
Each node in your Dell Failover Cluster must be installed with the same
release, edition, service pack, and processor architecture of the Windows
Server operating system. For example, all nodes in your cluster may be
configured with Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition. If the
operating system varies among nodes, it is not possible to configure a Failover
Cluster successfully. It is recommended to establish server roles prior to
configuring a Failover Cluster, depending on the operating system configured
on your cluster.
For a list of Dell PowerEdge Servers, Fibre Channel HBAs and switches, and
recommended list of operating system variants, specific driver and firmware
revisions, see the
Dell Cluster Configuration Support Matrix
on the Dell High
Availability website at
www.dell.com/ha
.
For a general overview of cluster configuration tasks and more detailed
information about deploying your cluster with Windows Server 2003
operating system, see the
Dell Failover Clusters with
Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
located on the Dell
Support website at
support.dell.com
.
For more information on deploying your cluster with Windows Server 2008
operating systems, see the
Dell Failover Clusters with
Microsoft Windows
Server 2008 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
located on the Dell
Support website at
support.dell.com
.
The following sub-sections describe steps that must be taken to enable
communication between the cluster nodes and your shared Dell/EMC
CX4-series Fibre Channel storage array, and to present disks from the storage
array to the cluster.