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Installing and Configuring Clusters
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7.2
Benefits of Clusters
Clusters provide three basic benefits:
•
Improved application and data availability
•
Scalability of hardware resources
•
Simplified management of large or rapidly growing systems
7.3
Installation and Configuration
Use the following procedure to install and configure your system as part
of a cluster.
1.
Unpack the controller, following the instructions in Chapter 6.
2.
Set the hardware termination for the controller as “always on”. See
Section 6.2.4.3, “J4/J5 Termination Enable,” page 6-6
, for more
information.
3.
Configure the IDs for the drives in the enclosure.
4.
Install one controller at a time. Press <Ctrl> <M> at BIOS
initialization to configure the options in
–
. Do not
attach the disks yet.
5.
Set the controller to Cluster Mode in the Objects > Adapter > Cluster
Mode menu.
6.
Disable the BIOS in the Objects > Adapter > Enable/Disable BIOS
menu.
7.
Change the initiator ID in the Objects > Adapter > Initiator ID menu.
8.
Power down the first server.
9.
Attach the controller to the shared array.
10. Configure the first controller to the desired arrays using the Configure
> New Configuration menu.
Note:
Use the whole array size of any created array. Do not
create partitions of different sizes on the RAID arrays from
the BIOS Configuration Utility (<Ctrl><M>), because they