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E2E Deployment and Operations Guide with Scalable Networking (Windows)
Deployment Introduction Solution Overview Solution Deployment Network integration overview Scalable Architecture Additional guidance for all configurations Deploying and Configuring a Host Cluster
Deploying and Configuring a Host Cluster
Overview of host clusters
Best practices and recommendations
Enabling bit locker
Recommended next steps
Deployment services
Persistent Memory for Windows Server HCI Day 1 operations Managing and monitoring clusters with Windows Admin Center Dell OpenManage Integration with Windows Admin Center Updates and maintenance

Best practices and recommendations

Best practices and recommendations

  • Dell Technologies recommends that you follow the guidelines that are described in this section.



    Update the hardware timeout for the Spaces port

    For performance optimization and reliability, update the hardware timeout configuration for the Spaces port.

    The following PowerShell command updates the configuration in the Windows registry and induces a restart of the node at the end of the registry update. Perform this update on all Storage Spaces Direct nodes immediately after initial deployment. Update one node at a time and wait until each node rejoins the cluster.

    Set-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\spaceport\Parameters -Name HwTimeout -Value 0x00002710 -Verbose

    Restart-Computer -Force

    Enable jumbo frames

    Enabling jumbo frames specifically on the interfaces supporting the storage network improve read/write performance of the Azure Stack HCI cluster. An end-to-end configuration of jumbo frames is required to take advantage of this technology. Configure jumbo frame by using the MTU configuration value "9014" bytes for the storage work endpoints.

    For information about configuring jumbo frames at the switch port level, see Sample Network Switch Configuration Files.