Owner's Manual

Deployment Guide 11
Verify that the following tasks have been completed for your cluster:
• All hardware is installed in the rack.
• All hardware interconnections are set up as shown in Figure 1-1 and listed in Table 1-4.
• All logical unit numbers (LUNs), RAID groups, and storage groups are created on the
Dell | EMC Fibre Channel storage system.
• Storage groups are assigned to the nodes in the cluster.
Before continuing with the following sections, visually inspect all hardware and interconnections
for correct installation.
Fibre Channel Hardware and Software Configurations
• Each node must include the following minimum hardware peripheral components:
– One or two hard drives (36-GB minimum) in the internal hard-drive bay
– Three Gigabit NIC ports
– Two Fibre Channel HBAs
• Each node must have the following software installed:
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux software (see Table 1-1)
– Fibre Channel HBA driver
– OCFS for cluster configuration using OCFS
• The Fibre Channel storage must be configured with the following:
– A minimum of three LUNs created and assigned to the cluster
– A minimum LUN size of 5 GB
Each Dell | EMC Fibre
Channel switch
One to four optical connections to the Dell | EMC Fibre Channel storage
system
One optical connection to each PowerEdge system’s HBA
Each Gigabit Ethernet switch One CAT 5e connection to the private Gigabit NIC on each PowerEdge
system
One CAT 5e connection to the remaining Gigabit Ethernet switch
Table 1-4. Fibre Channel Hardware Interconnections (continued)
Cluster Component Connections