2 Dell PowerEdge 4600's and 1 Powervault 220s

[pgoss]

All right here is the situation.

I have 2 Dell PowerEdge 4600's with Perc 3 DC Raid cards and running Windows 2000 Advanced server. Each system has 1 36GB hard drive and 1 73GB hard drive. I have a Dell PowerVault 220s that contains 14 36GB hard drives.

I am trying to cluster them and use the 220s as the quorum drive. I have the Perc cards set to clustering. I can load the first 4600 with Microsoft clustering services installed. When I go to boot the second 4600 I only get to where the perc card is looking for attached logical drives. IT hangs there and does not boot past it, I can not even get into the RAID configuration utility.

Does anyone have any ideas?

tia
-pat

 

[agmood]

Do the PERC 3 cards have unique Initiator IDs (found in the BIOS near where you enabled the clustering option)?

The default is 7 but one of them needs to be changed to another number...usually 6.

Alex

 

[pgoss]

I changed that also, the first one is set to 7(default) and the second perc card is changed to 6, still no luck.

thanks
pat

 

[adpwl1]

Do you have the Dell Cluster doc's? I have an old version that could help if you don't.

 

[pgoss]

Nope, I went looking through Dell's site but i couldn't find anything. Please send them this way

pgoss@usgs.gov

thanks
-pat

 

[agmood]

I thought that with the 220s set to cluster mode you could only use 13 disks -- maybe that 14th disk is fouling things up????

 

[pgoss]

That is correct, i have already removed it from the powervault.

 

[adpwl1]

PGoss, you still having problems? Did the docs I sent work at all? Let me know.

 

[pgoss]

Adpwl1,

To be honest I have not even had a chance to look them over yet. The clustering has taken a back shelf to a ton of other problems; I am hoping to test it out this week actually. I was able to look over the docs and they look very promising.

Thanks again,
pat

 

[pgoss]

Here's an update. i pulled the two local scsi drives off of the raid card on 1 of the servers. i then hooked the scsi cable to the onboard scsi on the server and it so far at least comes up but i'm still not sure it's working completely. i am going to reload the systems and place all of the local drives on the onboard scsi and just place the quorum disk on the raid cards. i'll let ya know if it works....

-pat