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Before deploying the Microsoft Azure stack HCI Cluster, review Microsoft HCI Solutions documentation from Dell Technologies.
Volumes are data stores used to hold files for workloads running on the VM. They are used to store Hyper-V VM files including VHD and VHDX. All volumes are accessible to all servers within a cluster.
When deploying volumes for a server cluster, it is crucial to follow specific guidelines for efficient performance and resource utilization. Ensure that the number of volumes is a multiple of the number of servers to facilitate workload distribution effectively.
For more information, see the following Volume deployment article from Microsoft.
Add the ROOT SSL certificate to Windows trust store:
We will use following command to add the ROOT SSL certificate to Windows trust store (We can also use certmgr.msc to add certificate):
certutil -addstore -f "ROOT" rootCA.pem
In this example, rootCA.pem is the trusted ROOT SSL certificate from Dell ObjectScale.
Note: Time should be synced between dell ObjectScale and Dell Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
Before Registering Cluster to Azure, we should have users on Azure Subscription with permission for app id creation, User Access Administrator, Contributor, WAC registration on Microsoft entra. Also, we should have details of Resource group created, Azure Active directory(tenant) id, Region details. To know more about subscription, permissions, and region details, see System requirements for Azure Stack HCI.
Log in to Azure portal with Azure account, browse for app registration and click new registration give application name and register it. so that it will give the result of application id and object id. To know more about App registration, see register-app.
To install WAC on client Windows server with desktop experience, see the following WAC documentation. Add Microsoft Azure Stack HCI cluster ‘azclu01’ to WAC and connect to the cluster. After adding cluster, all nodes will be available to view, as shown below.