Deployment Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC HCI Solutions for Microsoft Windows Server Deployment Guide
- 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 Azure Stack HCI
Figure 1. Switchless storage networking
Scalable infrastructure
The scalable offering within Dell EMC HCI Solutions for Microsoft Windows Server encompasses various AX node
configurations. In this Windows Server HCI solution, as many as 16 AX nodes power the primary compute cluster.
The following figure illustrates one of the flexible solution architectures. It includes the Azure Stack HCI cluster, redundant
top-of-rack (ToR) switches, a separate out-of-band (OOB) network, and an existing management infrastructure in the data
center.
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Solution Overview