Server User Manual

About This Manual
This manual describes how to set up and maintain the hardware
configuration for a TruCluster™ Server cluster.
Audience
This manual is for system administrators who will set up and configure the
hardware before installing the TruCluster Server software. The manual
assumes that you are familiar with the tools and methods needed to
maintain your hardware, operating system, and network.
Organization
This manual contains 10 chapters, an appendix, and an index. The
organization of this manual has been restructured to provide a more
streamlined manual. The chapters that contained information on SCSI bus
requirements and configuration, and configuring hardware, in previous
versions of this manual have been split up into two sets of two chapters each.
One set (Chapters 3 and 4) covers the UltraSCSI hardware and is geared
towards radial configurations. The other set (Chapters 9 and 10) covers
configurations using either external termination or radial connection to
non-UltraSCSI devices. A brief description of the contents follows:
Chapter 1 Introduces the TruCluster Server product and provides an overview
of setting up TruCluster Server hardware.
Chapter 2
Describes hardware requirements and restrictions.
Chapter 3 Contains information about setting up a shared SCSI bus, SCSI
bus requirements, and how to connect storage to a shared SCSI bus
using the latest UltraSCSI products (DS-DWZZH UltraSCSI hubs,
and HSZ70 and HSZ80 RAID array controllers).
Chapter 4 Describes how to prepare systems for a TruCluster Server
configuration, and how to connect host bus adapters to shared
storage using the DS-DWZZH UltraSCSI hubs and the newest
RAID array controllers (HSZ70 and HSZ80).
Chapter 5 Describes how to set up the Memory Channel cluster interconnect,
and how to upgrade Memory Channel interconnects.
Chapter 6
Provides an overview of Fibre Channel and describes how
to set up Fibre Channel hardware.
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