Deployment Guide
Table Of Contents
- Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies Deployment Guide
- Contents
- 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 Windows Server HCI
Configuring Windows Server HCI persistent memory
hosts
Three types of device objects are related to persistent memory on Windows Server 2019: the NVDIMM root device, physical
INVDIMMs, and logical persistent memory disks. In Device Manager, physical INVDIMMs are displayed under Memory devices,
while logical persistent disks are under Persistent memory disks. The NVDIMM root device is under System Devices. The
scmbus.sys driver controls the NVDIMM root device.
The nvdimm.sys driver controls all NVDIMM devices, while the pmem.sys driver controls the logical disks. Both the
nvdimm.sys and pmem.sys drivers are the same for all types of persistent memory, such as NVDIMM-N and Intel Optane
DC Persistent Memory (INVDIMM).
The following figure shows the Device Manager on a system with 12 INVDIMMs across dual CPU sockets and two persistent
storage disks:
Figure 5. Device Manager example
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