Guide Goal - NEC Express 5800 Quick Start Manual

Guide Goal

The goal of this Guide is to get you started as quickly as possible. It does not go into detailed explanations or
descriptions of FT Server technologies or Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 features and capabilities.
If you want to learn more about the capabilities of FT Servers, you can read more on the NECAM website:
http://support.necam.com/servers/ft
If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Microsoft Virtual Server R2 SP1, you can read more on the
Microsoft website:
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualserver
To set up your Virtual Server solution in a high availability configuration, you must perform the following five
steps:
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STEP 1: Install the hardware
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STEP 2: Install the operating system
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STEP 3: Configure the server hardware
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STEP 4: Install and configure Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
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STEP 5: Install and configure the guest virtual machines
The rest of this Quick Start Guide walks you through each of these steps.
NEC Express5800 Fault Tolerant Virtual Server Quick Start Guide
Figure 2: Virtual environment.
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