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Building Microsoft Windows 2012 Clusters on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX 2
Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................... 4
Requirements ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
Chassis setup ............................................................................................................................................................. 6
Chassis placement and CMC cabling ................................................................................................................ 6
LCD chassis setup and configuration ................................................................................................................ 6
I/O module network cabling and mappings ..................................................................................................... 7
Windows installation and configuration on VRTX supported server node(s) ................................................. 9
Basic OS installation steps ................................................................................................................................... 9
Role configuration and feature enablement .................................................................................................... 9
Role and feature configuration steps .............................................................................................................. 10
Required registry entries ..................................................................................................................................... 17
Storage configuration ............................................................................................................................................. 18
Creating virtual disks ........................................................................................................................................... 18
Creating a virtual disk for quorum use ........................................................................................................ 18
Creating a virtual disk for CSV use ............................................................................................................... 23
Setting assignment mode .................................................................................................................................. 24
Assigning virtual disks ......................................................................................................................................... 25
Installing the shared PERC8 driver ................................................................................................................... 26
Offline Shared Disk Configuration Steps......................................................................................................... 27
Shared Storage Configuration Steps................................................................................................................ 30
Changing the computer name and domain membership ........................................................................... 39
Cluster validation and creation ............................................................................................................................. 43
Validating clusters ............................................................................................................................................... 43
Creating clusters.................................................................................................................................................. 49