Benefits Of Clusters; Installation And Configuration - LSI MegaRAID 320 User Manual

4.2 Benefits of Clusters
4.3 Installation and Configuration
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Clusters provide three basic benefits:
Improved application and data availability
Scalability of hardware resources
Simplified management of large or rapidly growing systems
To install and configure your system as part of a cluster:
1. Unpack the storage adapter, following the instructions in Chapter 2.
2. Set the hardware termination for the storage adapter as "always on."
3. Configure the IDs for the drives in the enclosure.
4. Install one storage adapter at a time. Press <Ctrl> <M> at BIOS
initialization to configure the options in steps 5 through 11. Do not
attach the disks.
5. Set the storage adapter to Cluster Mode in the Objects > Adapter >
Cluster Mode menu.
6. Disable the BIOS in the Objects > Adapter > Enable/Disable BIOS
menu.
7. Change the initiator ID in the Objects > Adapter > Initiator ID menu.
8. Power down the first server.
9. Attach the storage adapter to the shared array.
10. Configure the first storage adapter to the arrays using the Configure
> New Configuration menu.
Note: Use the entire array size of any created array. Do not create
partitions of different sizes on the RAID arrays from the
BIOS Configuration Utility (<Ctrl><M>); these cannot be
failed over individually when they are assigned drive letters
in Windows 2000.
11. Follow the on-screen instructions to create arrays, and save the
configuration.
Installing and Configuring Clusters
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