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E2E Deployment and Operations Guide with Scalable Networking: Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies
About using this guide Deployment Introduction Solution Overview Solution Deployment Scalable Architecture with Network ATC
Scalable Architecture with Network ATC
Fully converged network configuration
Non-converged network configuration
Storage on physical adapters
Create a cluster
Converged topology
Non-converged topology
Enabling Storage Spaces Direct
Updating the page file settings
Configuring a cluster witness
Best practices and recommendations
Update the hardware timeout for the Spaces port Antivirus exclusions
Enabling BitLocker
Recommended next steps
GPU Integration Day 1 operations Managing and monitoring clusters with Windows Admin Center Dell OpenManage Integration with Windows Admin Center Updates and maintenance Secure connect gateway References

Create a cluster

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Create a cluster

    1. Run the Test-Cluster cmdlet. 
      Test-Cluster -Node node01,Node02,Node03,Node04 -Include 'Storage Spaces Direct', 'Inventory', 'System Configuration'
      The Test-Cluster cmdlet generates an HTML report of all performed validations and includes a summary of the validations. Review this report, resolve all warnings and errors before creating a cluster.
    2. Run the Get-PhysicalDisk command on all cluster nodes. Verify the output to ensure that all disks are in the healthy state and that the nodes have an equal number of disks. Verify that the nodes have homogenous hardware configuration.

      Ensure all nodes are reachable using the IPs set in the previous step. Create a cluster using the New-Cluster cmdlet. 
      New-Cluster -Name clusterName -Node node1,node2,node3,node4 -StaticAddress 192.168.10.100 -NoStorage -Verbose
    3. Exclude remote NDIS NIC (operating system to iDRAC pass-through) from cluster networks. 
      New-Item -Path HKLM:\system\currentcontrolset\services\clussvc\parameters 
      New-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\system\currentcontrolset\services\clussvc\parameters -Name ExcludeAdaptersByDescription  -Value "Remote NDIS Compatible Device“
      Get-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\system\currentcontrolset\services\clussvc\parameters -Name ExcludeAdaptersByDescription | Format-List ExcludeAdaptersByDescription