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Deployment of HPC Server 2008 R2 failover clusterluster Table of Contents Deployment of HPC Server 2008 R2 failover cluster ............................................................................... 1 1 Purpose ................................................................................................................................................. 1 2 Overview ............................................................................................................................................... 2 2.1 Model failover cluster ........................................................................................................................ 3 3 Setting up the virtual network and virtual machines ....................................................................... 5 3.1 Network creation ............................................................................................................................... 5 3.2 Virtual Machine creation .................................................................................................................... 7 4 Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on the domain controller ...................................................... 14 4.1 Basic Windows installation .............................................................................................................. 14 4.2 Domain controller configuration ...................................................................................................... 16 4.3 Firewall configuration – respond to ping echo request ................................................................... 18 5 Installation of SQL, HN1 and HN2 servers ...................................................................................... 20 6 DHCP Configuration of the domain controller – enterprise NIC ................................................... 21 7 Setting up an iSCSI target on the domain controller ..................................................................... 23 8 Setting up a failover cluster .............................................................................................................. 29 8.1 File server role setup ....................................................................................................................... 29 8.2 Failover clustering feature setup ..................................................................................................... 30 8.3 Failover cluster setup validation ...................................................................................................... 31 8.4 Failover cluster creation .................................................................................................................. 32 8.5 Shared storage verification ............................................................................................................. 33 8.6 Network configuration within the failover cluster ............................................................................. 33 9 Configuring a clustered file server .................................................................................................. 35 9.1 Configuring the firewall for remote management ............................................................................ 37 9.2 Setting up a clustered file share ...................................................................................................... 38 10 Setting up a remote SQL Server database server ..................................................................... 40 10.1 Installation of SQL Server 2008 SP1 .............................................................................................. 40 Page iii Deployment of HPC Server 2008 R2 failover clusterluster 10.2 Creation of configuration file ........................................................................................................... 40 10.3 Installation of SQL Server 2008 SP1 .............................................................................................. 45 10.4 Network configuration ..................................................................................................................... 47 10.5 Firewall configuration for remote SQL Server ................................................................................. 47 10.6 Configuration of database instance ................................................................................................ 48 10.7 Verification of connectivity ............................................................................................................... 49 11 Installation of HPC Pack 2008 R2 on HN1 .................................................................................. 51 11.1 Configuration of HPC Pack 2008 R2 .............................................................................................. 54 12 Installation of HPC Pack 2008 R2 on HN2 .................................................................................. 58 13 Bare metal deployment of compute nodes ................................................................................ 59 13.1 Creating a bare metal node template .............................................................................................. 59 13.2 Bare metal deployment ................................................................................................................... 60 13.3 Watching bare metal deployment.................................................................................................... 62 14 Remote Management .................................................................................................................... 67 14.1 Step 1 Configure head node for remote management ................................................................... 68 14.2 Step 2 – Enable WinRM on client machine ..................................................................................... 69 14.3 Step 3 – Add head node to trusted hosts list on client machine ..................................................... 69 14.4 Step 4- Modify User Account Control on client machine ................................................................ 70 14.5 Step 5 – Cache head node credentials on client machine .............................................................. 71 14.6 Step 6– Store head node IP address in hosts file of client machine............................................... 72 15 What is new in HPC Server 2008 R2 .................................................. 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