Dell Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Installation Manual download pdf (Page 5)

Installation Guide 5

This document provides information about installing Microsoft

Windows

Compute Cluster

Server 2003 on your Dell™ PowerEdge™ Cluster. It is intended for experienced IT professionals who

need to configure the cluster solution, and for trained service technicians who perform upgrade and

maintenance procedures. This document also addresses readers who are new to clustering and covers

the following topics:

• Setting up your hardware

• Installing the operating system with Dell OpenManage™ Server Assistant

• Configuring your system after installing the operating system

• Before you install Compute Cluster Pack (CCP)

• CCP Installation

• CCP Configuration

Setting Up Your Hardware

Compute Cluster Server 2003 is supported on PowerEdge 1950 systems and embedded Broadcom network

devices (as both the public interface and the cluster interconnect). The supported external storage is

Dell PowerVault™ MD1000 attached to a PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) 5/e.

A cluster running Compute Cluster Server 2003 comprises of a single head node and one or more

compute nodes. The head node controls the access to the cluster. Figure 1-1 gives an example of the

topology through which the head node and the compute nodes are connected in a network. For more

information about network configuration using Compute Cluster Server 2003, see the Microsoft Support

website at support.microsoft.com.

The recommended configurations for the head node and compute nodes are:

• Head node

– Disable hyperthreading in BIOS.

– Disable Pre-boot eXecution Environment (PXE) on both network interfaces.

– Connect the primary network interface to the cluster switch.

– Connect the secondary network interface to the public or intranet network.

• Compute nodes

– Disable hyperthreading in BIOS.

– Ensure that PXE is enabled on the primary network interface (NIC 1).

– Ensure that the boot order has the primary network interface before the local hard drive.

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