Before you proceed with operational management of the cluster, Dell Technologies recommends that you validate the cluster deployment, verify that the infrastructure is operational, and, if needed, activate the operating system license.

1. Run the test-Cluster cmdlet to generate a cluster validation report:

   Test-Cluster -Node Node01,Node02, Node03, Node04 -Include 'System Configuration', 'Inventory', 'Network', 'Storage Spaces Direct'

   This command generates an HTML report with a list of all the tests that were performed and completed without errors.
2. If the operating system was not factory-installed, activate the operating system license.

   By default, the operating system is installed in evaluation mode.