If the cluster nodes are shipped from Dell Technologies with a preinstalled operating system, complete the out-of-box experience (OOBE):
- Select language and locale settings.
- Accept the Microsoft and OEM EULAs.
- Set up a password for the local administrator account.
- Update the operating system partition size, and shrink it as needed.
The OEM operating system is preactivated and the Hyper-V role is predeployed for Windows Server 2019/2022. After completing the OOBE steps, perform the steps in Install roles and features to complete the cluster deployment and Storage Spaces Direct configuration.
The Azure Stack HCI operating system factory image has multilingual support for these languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Polish, and Italian. To change language:
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Run the following PowerShell commands.
<LANGUAGE>
can be en-US, fr-FR, ja-JP, ko-KR, de-DE, pl-PL, it-IT, or es-ES.Set-WinUserLanguageList <LANGUAGE>
Set-WinSystemLocale -systemlocale <LANGUAGE>
- Reboot after running the commands.
If you purchased a license for a secondary operation system to run your virtual machines, the VHD file is located in the C:\Dell_OEM\VM folder. Copy this VHD file to a virtual disk in your Azure Stack HCI cluster and create virtual machines using this VHD.