Reference Guide

Revisions
4 Dell EMC XC Series Appliances and XC Core Systems Best Practices for Running Windows Server 2016 with
Hyper-V | A01
Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Preface ................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
1 Boss card information ................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Important information about the Boss (PCIe cards M.2 Drive) ........................................................................... 6
1.1.1 Examples of write intensive applications not to be run on the boot device ........................................................ 6
1.2 Redirection of SCOM and SCCM logs ............................................................................................................... 6
1.3 Run virtual machines on the Nutanix Distributed File System only .................................................................... 6
1.4 Anti-malware software ........................................................................................................................................ 7
1.5 Limiting additional Microsoft roles ...................................................................................................................... 8
2 Required Microsoft updates ......................................................................................................................................... 9
2.1 Cluster Aware Updating feature ......................................................................................................................... 9
2.2 Mixed cluster recommendations ......................................................................................................................... 9
3 Kerberos enablement on Nutanix Hyper-V clusters ................................................................................................... 10
3.1 Kerberos time ................................................................................................................................................... 10
3.1.1 Time considerations ......................................................................................................................................... 10
4 Active Directory and DNS best practices ................................................................................................................... 12
4.1 Active Directory, Organizational Units (OUs), and Group Policy Objects (GPOs) ........................................... 12
4.2 Disjointed domain and DNS namespace .......................................................................................................... 12