Dell AX4-5 - Manual (Page 29)

Preparing Your Systems for Clustering
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3 Perform the following steps on all the node(s):
a Open Disk Management on the Server Manager.
b Assign the drive letters for the drives.
c Reassign the drive letter, if necessary.
To reassign the drive letter:
• With the mouse pointer on the same icon, right-click and select
Change Drive Letter and Path from the submenu.
• Click Change, select the letter you want to assign the drive
(for example, Z), and then click OK.
• Click Yes to confirm the changes.
If the cables are connected properly, the drive order is the same as is on
each node, and the drive letter assignments of all the cluster nodes follow
the same order as is on node 1. The volume labels can also be used to
double-check the drive order by ensuring that the disk with volume label
"Volume Z" is assigned to drive letter Z and so on for each disk on each
node. Assign drive letters on each of the shared disks, even if the disk
displays the drive letter correctly.
For more information about the storage array management software, see your
storage array documentation located on the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com.
Configuring Your Failover Cluster
The Failover Clustering feature included in Windows Server 2008 installs
the Cluster Service. The Cluster Service performs the basic cluster
functionality including membership, communication, and failover
management.
NOTE:
For installing and performing operations on Failover Clusters, you must be
logged on to the domain with an account that has local Administrator rights on all
the systems that you want to configure as cluster nodes.
NOTE:
Dell supports running Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering in a non-
redundant configuration on Dell PowerVault MD3000 storage system using single
port SAS controller only if the WS08clusprepcfg.xml file is installed. Ensure that this
file is installed before you run the Validate a Configuration wizard. For more
information on downloading the file, see the Dell Support site at support.dell.com.