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Figure 1-2. Redundant Network-Attached Cluster Configuration
NOTE: The configuration can have up to 32 nodes. The nodes can be:
• one cluster (up to 16 nodes)
• multiple clusters
• multiple cluster(s) and stand-alone server(s)
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