Reference Guide

16 Preparing Your Systems for Clustering
6 Install or update the storage connection drivers.
For more information on connecting your cluster nodes to a shared storage
array, see "Preparing Your Systems for Clustering" in
the Dell Failover
Cluster Hardware Installation and Troubleshooting Guide that
corresponds to your storage array. For more information on the
corresponding supported adapters and driver versions, see Dell Cluster
Configuration Support Matrices located on the Dell High Availability
Clustering website at www.dell.com/ha.
7
Install and configure the storage management software.
See the documentation included with your storage system or available at
the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com .
8 Configure the hard drives on the shared storage system(s).
See "Preparing Your Systems for Clustering" in the Dell Failover Cluster
Hardware Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
corresponding to your
storage array.
9 Configure the MSCS software.
See "Configuring Your Failover Cluster" on page 29.
10 Verify cluster functionality. Ensure that:
• The cluster components are communicating properly.
• MSCS is started.
See "Verifying Cluster Functionality" on page 33.
11 Verify cluster resource availability.
Use Cluster Administrator to check the running state of each resource
group. See "Verifying Cluster Resource Availability."
The following subsections provide detailed information about some steps in
the "Installation Overview" that is specific to the Windows Server 2003
operating system.