Deployment Guide

Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................... 5
Document overview.............................................................................................................................................................. 5
Audience and scope.............................................................................................................................................................. 5
Known issues..........................................................................................................................................................................5
Chapter 2: Solution Overview.......................................................................................................... 6
Solution introduction............................................................................................................................................................. 6
Deployment models............................................................................................................................................................... 6
Switchless storage networking......................................................................................................................................6
Scalable infrastructure.................................................................................................................................................... 7
Solution integration and network connectivity.................................................................................................................. 9
Chapter 3: Solution Deployment..................................................................................................... 10
Introduction to solution deployment..................................................................................................................................10
Deployment prerequisites....................................................................................................................................................10
Predeployment configuration.............................................................................................................................................. 11
Configuring network switches.......................................................................................................................................11
Configuring iDRAC and BIOS.........................................................................................................................................11
Configuring QLogic NICs...............................................................................................................................................12
Operating system deployment............................................................................................................................................12
Manual operating system deployment.........................................................................................................................13
Factory-installed operating system deployment........................................................................................................ 13
Installing roles and features.................................................................................................................................................13
Verifying firmware and software compliance with the support matrix......................................................................... 13
Updating out-of-box drivers............................................................................................................................................... 14
Changing the hostname...................................................................................................................................................... 14
Configuring host networking.............................................................................................................................................. 14
Joining cluster nodes to an Active Directory domain...................................................................................................... 15
Deploying and configuring a host cluster.......................................................................................................................... 15
Creating the host cluster...............................................................................................................................................15
Enabling Storage Spaces Direct................................................................................................................................... 16
Configuring the host management network as a lower-priority network for live migration.................................16
Updating the page file settings.....................................................................................................................................16
Configuring a cluster witness........................................................................................................................................17
Best practices and recommendations............................................................................................................................... 17
Disable SMB Signing...................................................................................................................................................... 17
Update the hardware timeout for the Spaces port................................................................................................... 17
Enable jumbo frames......................................................................................................................................................18
Recommended next steps.................................................................................................................................................. 18
Deployment services............................................................................................................................................................18
Chapter 4: References................................................................................................................... 19
Dell Technologies documentation...................................................................................................................................... 19
Microsoft documentation....................................................................................................................................................19
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