Clustering Solution
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
71038
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PRIMERGY Cluster Services iSCSI Solution (RX200/300 - RX200 and SX30)
Clustering Solution Fujitsu Siemens Computers |
19 Dec 2003 71038 |
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| Tested and Approved with the following Novell products: |
| NetWare 6.5 | NetWare iSCSI v1 |
| Novell Cluster Services(v1.7) | eDirectory(v8.7) |
| Product Description |
| This Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY Cluster Services iSCSI solution offers: High levels of flexibility, resilience, fault-tolerance and availability at a very attractive price. It is ideal for customers looking to deploy a Novell Cluster Services 1.7 solution, without the expense of implementing a costly fibre-channel fabric infrastructure. |
| Test Configuration |
| Host Bus Adapter | 2 LSI Logic® MegaRAID SCSI 320-2 RAID Controller; Bulletin #70361 | |
| Storage Area Network (SAN) Device | 2 FSC PRIMERGY SX30; Bulletin #71013 | |
| System | 3 FSC PRIMERGY RX200; Pentium® 4 3.06 GHz; Bulletin #70896 | |
| 2 FSC PRIMERGY RX300; Xeon™ 2.80 GHz; Bulletin #70550 |
| Configuration Note(s) |
| NIC Teaming enabled on all Target Hosts, providing high availability of the LAN connections. | |
| This Cluster Services iSCSI solution was tested using the following configuration: Two PRIMERGY RX200's (each connected to a single PRIMERGY SX30, via the LSI MegaRAID SCSI controller) mirrored together using Novell Software Mirroring (RAID1). Both PRIMERGY RX200's configured as Novell iSCSI Targets. Three Cluster Nodes (RX200 and two RX300's) configured as iSCSI Initiators, connected via a 1GBit LAN, to the mirrored RX200/SX30 storage hosts (targets). |
| The term Tested and Approved applies only to the exact configuration documented in this bulletin. For more information regarding the specific test configuration, please contact: |
| Fujitsu Siemens Computers |
| FSC EP PS LE3 |
| Buergermeister-Ulrich-Str. 100 |
| Augsburg D-86199 |
| GERMANY |
| Voice: +49-821-804-3293 |
| Fax: +49-821-804-3499 |
| Website: www.primergy.com |