Dell PowerVault MD3600f Hardware Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

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Preparing Your Systems for Clustering 4311 Test the failover capabilities of your new cluster.NOTE: You can also use the Cluster Validation Wizard.12 Configure highly-available applications and services on your failovercluster. Depending on your configuration, this may also require providingadditional LUNs to the cluster or creating new cluster resource groups.Test the failover capabilities of the new resources.13 Configure client systems to access the highly available applications andservices that are hosted on your failover cluster.Installation OverviewEach node in your Dell Windows Server failover cluster must have the samerelease, edition, service pack, and processor architecture of the WindowsServer operating system installed. For example, all nodes in your cluster maybe configured with Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition. If theoperating system varies among nodes, it is not possible to configure a failovercluster successfully. It is recommended to establish system roles prior toconfiguring a failover cluster, depending on the operating system configuredon your cluster.For a list of recommended operating systems, hardware components, anddriver or firmware versions for your Dell Windows Server Failover Cluster,see the Dell Cluster Configuration Support Matrices at dell.com/ha.For more information on deploying your cluster with the Windows Server2008 operating systems, see the Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft WindowsServer 2008 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide atsupport.dell.com/manuals.