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Preparing Your Systems for Clustering
4 Establish the physical network topology and the TCP/IP settings for
network adapters on each cluster node to provide access to the cluster
public and private networks.
5 Configure each cluster node as a member in the same Microsoft
®
Active
Directory
®
Domain.
6 Establish the physical storage topology and any required storage network
settings to provide connectivity between the storage array and the systems
that are configured as cluster nodes. For more information on configuring
the storage system(s), see your storage system documentation.
7 Use storage array management tools to create at least one logical unit
number (LUN). The LUN is used as a witness disk for Microsoft Windows
Server
®
2008 Failover Cluster. Ensure that this LUN is presented to the
systems that are configured as cluster nodes.
NOTE:
For security reasons, it is recommended that you configure the LUN on
a single node, as mentioned in step 8 when you are setting up the cluster.
Later you can configure the LUN as mentioned in step 9 so that other cluster
nodes can access it.
8 Select one of the systems and form a new Failover Cluster by configuring
the cluster name, cluster management IP, and quorum resource.
NOTE:
For Failover Clusters configured with Windows Server 2008 operating
system, run the Cluster Validation Wizard to ensure that your system is ready
to form the cluster.
9 Join the remaining node(s) to the Failover Cluster.
10 Configure roles for cluster networks. Take any network interfaces that are
used for iSCSI storage (or for other purposes outside of the cluster) out of
the control of the cluster.
11 Test the failover capabilities of your new cluster.
NOTE:
For Failover Clusters configured with the Windows Server 2008
operating system, you can also use the Cluster Validation Wizard.
12 Configure highly-available applications and services on your Failover
Cluster. Depending on your configuration, this may also require providing
additional LUNs to the cluster or creating new cluster resource groups.
13 Test the failover capabilities of the new resources.
14 Configure client systems to access the highly-available applications and
services that are hosted on your Failover Cluster.