Re: Cluster in IBM Bladecenter HS20
- From: "Ryan Sokolowski [MVP]" <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:01:58 -0700
You should also ensure that the hardware used is included in the HCT/HCL -
otherwise your solution might not be supported by Microsoft.
--
Ryan Sokolowski
MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
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"Isaac Story" <IsaacStory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I don't know if this is official "best practice" but I have just set up my
> HS20 blades in the following way. Take the secondary NIC's in each server
> (which are linked to the second Ethernet module in the chassis) and
> designate
> them on a private network (give them static addesses on a different subnet
> then you public network). Then create VLAN's in the secondary switch
> module
> to contain the secondary NIC's from each server in the cluster you are
> creating. Create a VLAN for each cluster. This puts the secondary NIC's on
> thier own network segment coming as close to private NIC communication as
> you
> can get with a blade chassis since you cannot pysically cross connect the
> NIC's to each other.
>
> Again, I don't know that this is official "best practice" since, like you
> expereinced, I also could not find any recommendations from IBM. So if
> anyone
> knows of a better method please let us know.
>
>
> Isaac
>
> "rbin" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> we plan to implement a MS Cluster (Windows 2003) consisting of 2 IBM HS20
>> blades. My question is: What is the correct LAN configuration? All blades
>> in
>> the chassis end in 2 Cisco Switches.Each of the 2 have 4 ports for the
>> connection to the campus switch. They are configured as an
>> EtherChannel-Port.
>>
>> How to implement the Heartbeat-Connection between the 2 nodes? The
>> configuration is certified by the Windows Server Catalog. Unfortunately
>> there
>> is no information about the network configuration. Also IBM seems to
>> ignore
>> the MSCS in the online documentation.
>>
>> Any help out there?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> rbin
>>
.
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