Dell™ PowerEdge™ Cluster FE655W Systems Platform Guide w w w. d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l .
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Contents Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Supported Cluster Configurations . System Configurations Rules and Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Attaching Your Cluster to a Shared Storage System in a Direct-Attached Cluster Configuration . . . . . . . . . Rules and Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 .
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Supported Cluster Configurations This section provides information about supported cluster configurations for your PowerEdge Cluster FE655W solution. Table 1-1 provides a list of supported cluster configurations for the PowerEdge Cluster FE655W solution running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition on a PowerEdge 1855/1955 server enclosure. NOTE: The server modules used in a cluster, including their Fibre Channel daughter cards, must be identical.
System Configurations The PowerEdge Cluster FE655W solution supports the following Fibre Channel configurations: • Fibre Channel embedded switches connected to external SAN fabrics • Fibre Channel embedded switches connected to up to two storage systems • Fibre Channel pass-through modules connected to a storage system • Fibre Channel pass-through modules connected to external SAN fabrics Rules and Guidelines When configuring your cluster, all cluster nodes must contain identical versions of the fol
Attaching Your Cluster to a Shared Storage System in a Direct-Attached Cluster Configuration This section provides the rules and guidelines for attaching your cluster nodes to the shared storage system using a direct connection (without Fibre Channel switches). In a direct-attached configuration, both the cluster nodes are connected directly to the storage system. Rules and Guidelines The rules and guidelines described in Table 1-2 apply to direct-attached clusters. Table 1-2.
Attaching Your Cluster to a Shared Storage System in a SAN-Attached Configuration A PowerEdge Cluster FE655W solution may include the following hardware components in a SAN configuration: • Multiple clusters and non-clustered server modules, but is limited to no more than two PowerEdge 1855/1955 server enclosures.
Table 1-3. Rules and Guidelines for Dell PowerEdge Clusters (continued) Rule/Guideline Description Ethernet module Two Gigabit Ethernet pass-through modules. Fibre Channel module • Two Brocade SilkWorm 3014/4016 Fibre Channel switch modules. • *Two McData 4314/4416 Fibre Channel switch modules. • Two Fibre Channel pass-through modules. Fibre Channel switch (external SAN) Brocade SilkWorm 200E, *3250, *3850, *4100, *5000, and McData Sphereon *4400, *4500, *4700 switches.
