Reference Guide

Appendices

These appendices present the following topics:

Topics:

• Appendix A: Sample PowerShell cmdlets for end-to-end deployment

• Appendix B: Supported hardware

Appendix A: Sample PowerShell cmdlets for end-to-

end deployment

Install required Windows features

Install-WindowsFeature -Name Fs-Fileserver,Storage-Replica ,Hyper-V, Failover-

Clustering, Data-Center-Bridging -IncludeAllSubFeature -IncludeManagementTools -

Verbose

Create VM switches and configure host networking

#Create VMSwitch for Management Network

#Mention the correct network adapters based on your environment. This

configuration has to be done on all #nodes in the stretch cluster

New-VMSwitch -Name S2DSwitch -AllowManagementOS 0 -NetAdapterName "NIC1","NIC2"

-MinimumBandwidthMode Weight -Verbose

#Host Management Adapter

Add-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -Name "Management" -SwitchName S2DSwitch -

Passthru | Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -Access -VlanId 202 –Verbose

New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet (Management)" -IPAddress

192.168.100.11 -DefaultGateway 192.168.100.1 -PrefixLength 24 -AddressFamily

IPv4 –Verbose

#DNS server address

Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet (Management)" -

ServerAddresses 192.168.100.100,192.168.100.101

#Storage 1 Adapter

New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias "SLOT 3 Port 1" -IPAddress 192.168.101.11 -

PrefixLength 24 -AddressFamily IPv4 -Verbose

#Storage 2 Adapter

New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias "SLOT 3 Port 2" -IPAddress 192.168.102.11 -

PrefixLength 24 -AddressFamily IPv4 –Verbose

#Enable RDMA on Storage Ports & set NetworkDirect Technology to iWarp

Enable-NetAdapterRDMA -Name "SLOT 3 Port 1", "SLOT 3 Port 2"

Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -Name 'SLOT 3 PORT 1' -DisplayName 'NetworkDirect

Technology' -DisplayValue 'iWarp'

Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -Name 'SLOT 3 PORT 2' -DisplayName 'NetworkDirect

Technology' -DisplayValue 'iWarp'

#Set VM Migration to SMB

Set-VMHost –VirtualMachineMigrationPerformanceOption SMB

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