Installing Intel Raid High Availability Storage Software; Installing The Operating System And The Failover Clustering Feature - Intel RAID High Availability Storage User Manual

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Installing Intel
The next step of setting up the Intel
the software components. The following Intel
the baseline software components needed for the two controller nodes.
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One of the following supported Operating Systems:
 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
 Microsoft Windows Server 2012
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A version of the Intel RAID operating system driver that has support for the Intel
Availability Storage solution
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 A version of Intel RAID Web Console 2 (RWC2) that has support for the Intel
Availability Storage solution
 A version of CmdTool2 that supports the Intel
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(Optional) An SMI-S provider that supports the Intel
See Section - Verifying Intel® RAID High Availability Storage Support in Tools and the OS Driver, to
learn how to verify that you have the correct version of the tools and driver.
NOTE: Support for clustered RAID controllers is not enabled by default in the standard build of
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. Consult with your server vendor to obtain a version of this
operating system that includes this support.

Installing the Operating System and the Failover Clustering Feature

When you have finished physically configuring the Intel
install one of the supported operating systems on both controller nodes, following the directions provided
by Microsoft.
You have two options for installing the operating system for each controller node:
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Install it on a private volume connected to the system-native storage controller. The recommended
best practice is to install the operating system on this private volume because the disks in the
clustering configuration cannot see this volume. Therefore, no danger exists of accidentally
overwriting the operating system disk when you set up clustering.
 Install it on an exclusive virtual drive connected to the Intel
controller. Exclusive host access is required for a boot volume so the volume is not overwritten
accidentally when you create virtual drives for data storage. For instructions on creating exclusive
virtual drives using the Intel® RAID BIOS Console, see Section - Creating Shared VDs with the
Intel® RAID BIOS Console.
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NOTE: The Intel RAID High Availability Storage solution does not support booting from a shared
operating system volume.
Install the Failover Cluster feature on both servers, following the instructions in the Microsoft
documentation.
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