Dell AX4-5 - Manual (Page 30)

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Preparing Your Systems for Clustering
To install Failover Clustering feature:
1 Click Start→ Administrative Tools→ Server Manager, if Server Manager is
not running,
2 If prompted for permission to continue, click Continue.
3 Under Features Summary, click Add Features.
4 In the Add Features Wizard, click Failover Clustering and Multipath I/O
and then click Install.
5 Click Close to close the wizard.
6 Repeat the step 1 to step 5 for each system that you want to configure as
cluster node.
When you install Failover Clustering, the Cluster Service starts on each node
and responds automatically if one of the nodes fails or goes offline. To provide
application failover for the cluster, the Failover Clustering feature must be
installed on each cluster node.
For more information, see "Understanding Your Failover Cluster" on page 39.
Validating Your Failover Cluster Configuration
NOTE:
It is strongly recommended that you validate your configuration by running
all tests in the Validate a Configuration Wizard before you create a Failover Cluster.
By running the tests, you can confirm that your hardware and settings are
compatible with Failover Clustering. You can run the tests on a set of systems and
storage devices either before or after you have configured them in a Failover
Cluster. Dell and Microsoft support a cluster configuration as long as it has passed
all the tests included in Validate a Configuration Wizard.
To run Validate a Configuration wizard:
1 After you have installed Failover Clustering Feature on all your nodes,
connected your storage and configured drive letters and volumes, open the
Failover Cluster MMC from Start
→ Administrative Tools→ Failover
Cluster Management.
2 Go to the Action tab and select Validate a Configuration Wizard.
3 Click Next and on the Select Servers or a Cluster window. Enter the
names of the systems that you want to be a part of your cluster and click
Add. Click Next.