Deployment Guide
Table Of Contents
- Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies Deployment Guide
- Contents
- Introduction
- Solution Overview
- Solution Deployment
- Introduction to solution deployment
- Deployment prerequisites
- Predeployment configuration
- Operating system deployment
- Installing roles and features
- Verifying firmware and software compliance with the support matrix
- Updating out-of-box drivers
- Changing the hostname
- Configuring host networking
- Joining cluster nodes to an Active Directory domain
- Deploying and configuring a host cluster
- Best practices and recommendations
- Recommended next steps
- Deployment services
- References
- Appendix A: Persistent Memory for Windows Server HCI
Figure 1. Switchless storage networking
Scalable infrastructure
The scalable offering within Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies encompasses various AX node configurations. In this
Windows Server HCI solution, as many as 16 AX nodes power the primary compute cluster.
The following figure illustrates one of the flexible solution architectures. It includes the Azure Stack HCI cluster, redundant
top-of-rack (ToR) switches, a separate out-of-band (OOB) network, and an existing management infrastructure in the data
center.
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Solution Overview