Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC HCI Solutions for Microsoft Windows Server: Managing and Monitoring the Solution Infrastructure Life Cycle Operations Guide
- Introduction
- Day 0 Operations
- Introduction
- Azure onboarding for Azure Stack HCI OS
- Licensing for Azure Stack HCI for Windows Server 2016 and 2019
- Creating virtual disks
- Managing and Monitoring Azure Stack HCI Cluster using Windows Admin Center
- Installing Windows Admin Center
- Adding the HCI cluster connection
- Accessing the HCI cluster
- Viewing server details
- Viewing drive details
- Managing and monitoring volumes
- Enabling data deduplication on Storage Spaces Direct
- Monitoring and managing VMs
- Managing virtual switches
- Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Windows Admin Center
- Firmware updates using Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center for System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- Firmware and driver updates using the manual method
- Expanding the Azure Stack HCI cluster
- Extending volumes
- Performing AX node recovery
- Operating system recovery
Adding the HCI cluster connection
About this task
For monitoring and management purposes, add the hyperconverged cluster that is based on Dell EMC Solutions for Azure Stack
HCI as a connection in Windows Admin Center.
Steps
1. Go to Windows Admin Center > Cluster Manager, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 3. HCI cluster navigation
2. Click Add.
The Add Cluster window is displayed.
3. Enter the cluster FQDN and select Also add servers in the cluster, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 4. Adding the HCI cluster
Windows Admin Center discovers the cluster and the nodes that are part of the cluster.
4. Click Add.
The cluster is added to the connection list and Windows Admin Center is configured to monitor and manage the HCI cluster.
Day 0 Operations
9