Dell Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Service Pack 1- Installation Manual

Page 2 - Notes and Notices

Notes and Notices NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. ____________________ Information in this document is subject to chang...

Page 3 - C o n t e n t s

Contents 3 C o n t e n t s Setting Up Your Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Installing the Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition With Service Pack 2 Operating System Using Dell OpenManage Server Assistant . . . . . . . . 7 Configuring Your Cluster After Installing the Operating Syste...

Page 5 - This document provides information about installing Microsoft

Installation Guide 5 This document provides information about installing Microsoft ® Windows ® Compute Cluster Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on your Dell™ PowerEdge™ cluster. It is intended for experienced IT professionals who need to configure the cluster solution, and for trained service techni...

Page 6 - Embedded Broadcom

6 Installation Guide Figure 1-1. Example of a Topology With Nodes Running Compute Cluster Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 SP1, which consists of Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition With SP2 as the operating system and Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack Service Pack 1 (S...

Page 7 - Dell PowerEdge System Build and Update Utility

Installation Guide 7 Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 SP1 is supported on the following AMD™-based systems and network devices: • PowerEdge 2970 systems as the head node and PowerEdge SC1435 and M605 systems as compute nodes. • Embedded Broadcom network devices as both the public interf...

Page 8 - Enter Operating System Information

8 Installation Guide d Configure the file system type and hard drive partition size. NOTE: If you plan to use Windows Deployment Services (WDS) (earlier named Remote Installation Services (RIS) in Windows Server 2003 versions prior to SP2), you require a second hard drive or partition to install the...

Page 9 - Promote System to Domain Controller and Install DNS

Installation Guide 9 Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition With SP2 Post-Setup Security Updates 1 After the installation of Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition With SP2, a window appears prompting you to apply existing security updates. If the system is connected to the Internet, downl...

Page 10 - Install DHCP Server

10 Installation Guide c In the Install or Configure DNS screen, select No, just install and configure DNS on this computer and click Next . d In the New Domain Name screen, enter a DNS name for the new domain (for example, cluster.com ) and click Next . e In the NetBIOS Domain Name screen, enter a N...

Page 11 - Authorize the DHCP Server

Installation Guide 11 4 In the Summary of Selections window, click Next . The installer runs and you may be prompted to insert the operating system media. 5 In the New Scope wizard, click Next . Complete the following steps to set the scope parameters and to activate the scope: a In the Scope Name s...

Page 12 - Preparing a Partition for the RIS Server Images

12 Installation Guide 3 In the DHCP Control window, right-click the server name and select Authorize . 4 Close the DHCP Server window. Before You Install Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack (CCP) Service Pack 1 (SP1) A separate partition is required for the WDS server images which is used for the compute...

Page 13 - Installing CCP SP1; After installing CCP on your cluster, a; Networking; To complete the tasks in the

Installation Guide 13 Installing CCP SP1 To install CCP: 1 Insert the CCP CD, run setup.exe , and click Next . 2 The End User License Agreement window appears. Read the agreement, choose I Accept , and click Next if you agree to the terms and conditions. 3 In the Select Installation Type screen, det...

Page 14 - Windows Deployment Services; To complete the tasks in the RIS section of the

14 Installation Guide 6 Select Disable Internet Connection Sharing and click Next . NOTE: This option disables the cluster compute node Internet connectivity. 7 In the Summary window, verify the contents and click Finish . 8 In the Configuration Succeeded window, click Close . 9 Click Manage Windows...

Page 16 - Adding PowerEdge-Specific Drivers to the RIS Image; The drivers that must; textmode

16 Installation Guide Adding PowerEdge-Specific Drivers to the RIS Image To complete the configuration of Compute Cluster Server 2003 on PowerEdge systems, you must install additional drivers. Download the drivers applicable to your cluster from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com depending...

Page 17 - Start

Installation Guide 17 4 Run the Broadcom driver package that you downloaded ( Bcom_LAN_105_35_W2K364_AXX.exe ) and extract its contents to C:\Broadcom\W2K364 , where C:\ is the system boot directory. 5 Copy the files in the NX2_RIS_Drivers directory ( C:\Broadcom\W2K364\NX2_RIS_Drivers ) to D:\Remot...

Page 18 - MassStorageDrivers

18 Installation Guide 10 Edit the ristndrd.sif file at D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\WINDOWS\amd64\templates a Add the following line to the Unattended section OemPnpDriversPath="\Drivers\Nic" b Save and close the file. If the compute nodes have a PERC or SAS Adapter, perform the fol...

Page 19 - net stop; Installing Compute Nodes; In the

Installation Guide 19 b Add another section labeled OEMBootFiles to the ristndrd.sif and list the names of all the files from the text mode directory excluding .txt files. For PERC drivers : [OEMBootFiles] nodev.inf oemsetup.inf percsas.cat percsas.sys txtsetup.oem For SAS drivers : [OEMBootFiles] l...

Dell Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Service Pack 1- Installation Manual

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