Owner's Manual

Setting Up a SAS Cluster 33
Setting Up a SAS Cluster for
the Dell PowerVault MD3000
and MD1000 Expansion Enclosures
WARNING: Before you begin any of the procedures in this section,
read the safety information that shipped with your system. For additional
best practices information, see the Dell™ Regulatory Compliance website
at www .dell.com/regulatory_compliance.
To configure the Dell PowerEdge™ systems and the Dell PowerVault™ MD3000
and MD1000 storage enclosure to function in a Oracle
®
Real Application Cluster
(RAC) environment:
1
Verify the hardware and software configurations using Figure 4-1,
Table 4-1, and Figure 4-2.
2 Follow the steps in "Setting Up the Hardware" on page 35.
CAUTION: Before you upgrade the firmware on your PowerVault MD3000 storage
array, ensure that you backup your data.