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 2. Scalable solution architecture
Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies do not include management infrastructure components such as a cluster for
hosting management VMs and services such as Microsoft Active Directory, Domain Name System (DNS), Windows Server
Update Services (WSUS), and Microsoft System Center components such as Operations Manager (SCOM). The instructions
in this guide do not include deployment of any of these services and components, and they assume that at least an Active
Directory domain controller is available in the existing management infrastructure. In a remote office scenario, Dell Technologies
recommends that you deploy either an Active Directory replica or read-only domain controller (RODC) at the remote office.
Solution Overview
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