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Azure Portal Deployment and Operations Guide with Switchless Networking
About using this guide Revision history Deployment Introduction Solution introduction Solution Deployment
Solution Deployment
Solution deployment introduction
Deployment prerequisites
Change operating system to iDRAC pass-through IPs Install Windows Admin Center Install OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center
Predeployment configuration
Configuring network switches Configuring iDRAC and BIOS Configure Intel E810 NICs
Cabling instructions
Two-node, back-to-back connected architecture
Operating system deployment
Manual operating system deployment Factory-installed operating system deployment Configure host networking
Install roles and features
Configuration to prepare nodes
Change the hostname
Registry settings
Verifying and updating firmware and software compliance
Configuring firewall settings
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Operating system deployment

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Operating system deployment

  • Factory-installed operating system deployment

    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.
      Note: Partition size adjustment is not available with the factory-installed Azure Stack HCI operating system.

    For a factory-installed Azure Stack HCI operating system, required features are pre-installed. For more information, see Install roles and features.

    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:

    • 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.
    Note: For all of the languages except Polish, the main screen changes to the appropriate font. For Polish, the English font is used.

    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.

    Note: Do not run your virtual machine with the VHD file residing on the BOSS device (for example, c:\). It should always be on c:\clusterstorage\<VD1>.