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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 Deploy a cluster with Azure Stack HCI 23H2 operating system
Deploy a cluster with Azure Stack HCI 23H2 operating system
Prerequisites
Assign deployment user roles Stage SBE package for installation
Deploy the cluster
Deploy a cluster using Azure portal Deploy Azure Stack HCI using Microsoft ARM template
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Prerequisites

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Prerequisites

  • Stage SBE package for installation

    Procedure for staging the SBE package for installation as part of a deployment.

    1. Create a directory SBE under the root of the operating system boot drive i.e C:\. 
      New-Item -Path C:\SBE -ItemType Directory
    2. Download the SBE package and extract the latest SBE bundle .zip file.
      To download the SBE package, do the following:
      1. On the Dell Technologies Support page, scroll down and select Browse All Products > Infrastructure > Converged Infrastructure > Hyper-converged Systems > AX Nodes, and select the AX node for your system. When you click Select This Product, the AX node product page appears.
        Figure 9. Download the SBE package

        Download the SBE package

      2. Go to Drivers & Downloads.
    3. Copy the extracted content into the C:\SBE directory.
      The following command shows the files directly extracted into the C:\SBE directory. 
      Get-ChildItem -Path C:\SBE
      Mode   LastWriteTime         Length `    Name

      ----            -------------          ------     ----

      -a----          4/1/2024   7:28 AM      32008       Bundle_SBE_Dell_AS-HCI-AX_4.1.2405.2001.xml

      -a----          4/1/2024   7:27 AM      739058535   Bundle_SBE_Dell_AS-HCI-AX_4.1.2405.2001.zip

      -a----          4/1/2024   7:28 AM      4188        SBE_Discovery_Dell.xml