Network Requirements; Shared Disk Requirements; Cluster Installation - HP ProLiant 300 Series Administration Manual

Network requirements

• A unique NetBIOS cluster name.
• For each node deployed in the cluster the following static IP addresses are required:
• One for the network adapters on the private network.
• One for the network adapters on the public network.
• One for the virtual server itself.
A single static cluster IP address is required for the entire cluster.
• A domain user account for Cluster service (all nodes must be members of the same domain).
• Each node should have at least two network adapters—one for connection to the public network
and the other for the node-to-node private cluster network. If only one network adapter is used
for both connections, the configuration is unsupported. A separate private network adapter is
required for HCL certification.

Shared disk requirements

NOTE:
Do not let more than one node access the shared storage devices at the same time until Cluster service
is installed on at least one node and that node is online. This can be accomplished through selective
storage presentation, SAN switch zoning, or having only one node online at all times.
• All software components listed in the SAN Connection Guide must be installed and the fiber
cables attached to the HBA(s) before the cluster installation is started.
• All shared disks, including the quorum disk, must be accessible from all nodes.
• All shared disks must be configured as basic (not dynamic).
• All partitions on the disks must be formatted as NTFS.

Cluster installation

During the installation process, nodes are shut down and rebooted. These steps guarantee that the data
on disks that are attached to the shared storage bus is not lost or corrupted. This can happen when
multiple nodes try to simultaneously write to the same disk that is not yet protected by the cluster software.
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