20 Introduction
Cluster Nodes
Table 1-4 lists the hardware requirements for the server modules in the
PowerEdge server enclosure.
Table 1-4. Cluster Node Requirements
Component Minimum Requirement
Cluster nodes Two to eight PowerEdge server modules running the appropriate
Windows Server 2003 operating system edition as described in
Table 1-1
RAM At least 512 MB of RAM installed per s
erver module
Fibre Channel
mezzanine card
If the cluster is configured with a Fibre Channel shared storage
system, at least one dual-port Fibre Channel mezzanine card per
server module
iSCSI mezzanine
card
If the cluster is configured with an iSCSI shared storage system,
at least one dual-port Gigabit Ethernet mezzanine card per
server module
Gigabit Ethernet
(cluster networks)
At least two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces per
server module
RAID controller
(optional)
One controller connected to two internal hard drives for each
s
erver module
in a RAID 1 configuration
NOTE: It is strongly recommended that you use hardware-based
RAID or software-based disk-fault tolerance for the internal drives.
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