HP ProLiant DL380 G5 High Availability Storage Server installation instructions (5697-7748, November 2008)

1 Preparing for installation

These instructions are intended for professionals who will be installing, setting up, and configuring

the HP ProLiant DL380 G5 High Availability Storage Server. Experience with Microsoft® administrative

procedures and system and storage configurations is required.

The DL380 High Availability Storage Server solution consists of two HP ProLiant DL380 G5 Storage

Servers and one Modular Smart Array (MSA) 2012sa storage device configured in an active/passive

or active/active cluster. The following instructions allow you to set up a basic active/passive or

active/active cluster using a shared Quorum disk and basic file shares.

About this document

This document provides instructions for creating three types of cluster configurations, depending on

your storage server hardware configuration:

• To set up an active/passive cluster with the default hardware configuration (2 NIC ports on each

storage server), see “Setting up an active/passive cluster” on page 13.

• To set up an active/active cluster with the default hardware configuration, first set up an active/pass-

ive cluster as described in “Setting up an active/passive cluster” on page 13, then complete ad-

ditional steps as described in “Setting up an active/active cluster” on page 29.

• To set up an active/active cluster with an additional NIC adapter on each storage server for the

highest availability and redundancy, see

“Adding components for optimal availability and redundancy” on page 33.