Dell AX4-5 - Manual (Page 5)

Introduction
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Introduction
A failover cluster combines specific hardware and software components to
provide enhanced availability for applications and services that are run on the
cluster. A failover cluster is designed to reduce the possibility of any single
point of failure within the system that can cause the clustered applications or
services to become unavailable. It is recommended that you use redundant
components like server and storage power supplies, connections between the
nodes and the storage array(s), connections to client systems or other servers
in a multi-tier enterprise application architecture in your cluster.
This document provides information and specific configuration tasks that
enable you to configure your Microsoft
® Windows Server ® failover cluster
with Dell|EMC AX4-5 Fibre Channel storage array(s).
For more information on deploying your cluster with Windows Server 2003
operating systems, see the Dell™Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide 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
on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
For a list of recommended operating systems, hardware components, and
driver or firmware versions for your Dell Windows Server Failover Cluster, see
the Dell Cluster Configuration Support Matrices located on the Dell High
Availability Clustering website at www.dell.com/ha.