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Building Microsoft Windows 2012 Clusters on the Dell PowerEdge VRTX 5
Hardware requirements Table 2.
Hardware
Ethernet Network cable for the chassis CMC
Ethernet Network cables for each of the blade NICs
Cluster requirements Table 3.
Cluster name
Cluster resource
DHCP Server or Static IP addresses
Cluster IP Resource, Cluster Heartbeat Resource
SPERC8 Shared Disk
Quorum Shared Disk Resource, Cluster Shared
Volume Resource
Active Directory Domain Membership
Active Directory Domain Controller
Domain Administrator Account
Active Directory membership
Note: Update all firmware for the Chassis Management Controller (CMC),
mainboard, iDRAC7, I/O module, Shared PERC8, expander, and physical
disks before completing any additional steps.