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4. Enable RDMA for the storage adapters.

5. Change RDMA settings on the Qlogic NICs.

6. Configure the QoS policy.

7. Disable DCBX Willing in the operating system.

NOTE: Dell recommends implementing a nonconverged network and using physical network adapters for the storage

traffic rather than using Switch Embedded Teaming (SET). However, in a nonconverged configuration, if virtual

machine adapters must have RDMA capability, SET configuration is necessary for storage adapters.

For information about each of the preceding steps and all possible topologies within both fully converged and nonconverged solution

integration (including switchless storage networking solution integration) and host operating system network configuration, see https://

infohub.delltechnologies.com/section-assets/network-integration-and-host-network-configuration-options.

NOTE: The host operating system network configuration must be complete before you join cluster nodes to the Active

Directory domain.

Joining cluster nodes to an Active Directory

domain

Before you can create a cluster, the cluster nodes must be a part of an Active Directory domain.

NOTE: Connecting to Active Directory Domain Services by using the host management network might require routing to

the Active Directory network. Ensure that this routing is in place before joining cluster nodes to the domain.

You can perform the domain join task by running the Add-Computer cmdlet on each host that will be a part of the Azure Stack HCI

cluster.

NOTE:

Optionally, you can add all newly created computer objects from the cluster deployment to a different

Organizational Unit (OU) in Active Directory Domain Services. In this case, you can use the -OUPath parameter along

with the Add-Computer cmdlet.

$credential = Get-Credential

Add-Computer -DomainName S2dlab.local -Credential $credential -Restart

NOTE: This command induces an automatic restart at the end of the domain join operation.

Deploying and configuring a host cluster

After joining the cluster nodes to an Active Directory domain, you can create a host cluster and configure it for Storage Spaces Direct.

Creating the host cluster

Verify that the nodes are ready for cluster creation, and then create the host cluster.

Steps

1. Run the Test-Cluster cmdlet:

Test-Cluster -Node S2Dnode01, S2DNode02, S2dNode03, S2dNode04 –Include 'Storage Spaces

Direct', 'Inventory', 'Network', 'System Configuration'

NOTE:

The Test-Cluster cmdlet generates an HTML report of all performed validations and includes a summary of

the validations. Review this report before creating a cluster.

2. Run the Get-PhysicalDisk command on all cluster nodes.

Verify the output to ensure that all disks are in the healthy state and that the nodes have an equal number of disks. Verify that the

nodes have homogenous hardware configuration.

3. Run the New-Cluster cmdlet to create the host cluster.

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