Reference Guide

4 Contents
Installing the Storage Connection
Ports and Drivers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Installing and Configuring the
Shared Storage System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Assigning Drive Letters and Mount Points
. . . . . 25
Configuring Hard Drive Letters When
Using Multiple Shared Storage Systems
. . . . . . 28
Formatting and Assigning Drive Letters and
Volume Labels to the Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Configuring Your Failover Cluster
. . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Configuring Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS)
With Windows Server 2003
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Verifying Cluster Readiness
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Installing Applications in the Cluster Group
. . . . 32
Installing the Quorum Resource
. . . . . . . . . . 32
Creating a LUN for the Quorum Resource
. . . . . 33
Configuring Cluster Networks Running
Windows Server 2003
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Verifying MSCS Operation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Verifying Cluster Functionality
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Verifying Cluster Resource Availability
. . . . . . . . . 34
3 Installing Your Cluster Management
Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Microsoft Cluster Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Launching Cluster Administrator on a
Cluster Node
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Running Cluster Administrator on a
Remote Console
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Launching Cluster Administrator on a
Remote Console
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36