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E2E Deployment and Operations Guide with Switchless Networking: Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies
About using this guide Deployment Introduction Solution Overview Solution Deployment Switchless Architecture with Network ATC
Switchless Architecture with Network ATC
Requirements for switchless storage network topologies
Setup IPs manually on SMB NICs
Creating a cluster
Creating network intents for switchless
Enabling Storage Spaces Direct
Configuring host management network as a lower-priority network for live migration
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
Deployment services
References 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

Enabling Storage Spaces Direct

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Enabling Storage Spaces Direct

  • After you create the cluster, run the Enable-ClusterS2D cmdlet to configure Storage Spaces Direct on the cluster. Do not run the cmdlet in a remote session; instead, use the local console session.

    Run the Enable-ClusterS2d cmdlet as follows: 
    Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect -PoolFriendlyName 'HCIPOOL' -Verbose

    The Enable-ClusterS2D cmdlet generates an HTML report of all configurations and includes a validation summary. Review this report, which is typically stored in the local temporary folder on the node where the cmdlet was run. The verbose output of the command shows the path to the cluster report. At the end of the operation, the cmdlet discovers and claims all the available disks into an auto-created storage pool. Verify the cluster creation by running any of the following commands:

    Get-ClusterS2D

    Get-StoragePool

    Get-ClusterPerformanceHistory -FriendlyName *Cluster* | Get-StorageHealthReport