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E2E Deployment and Operations Guide with Switchless Networking: Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies
Deployment Introduction Solution Overview Solution Deployment Switchless Architecture with Network ATC
Switchless Architecture with Network ATC
Configure host networking
Setup IPs manually on SMB NICs
Creating a cluster
Creating network intents for switchless
Enabling Storage Spaces Direct
Configuring the host management network as a lower-priority network for live migration
Updating the page file settings
Configuring a cluster witness
Best practices and recommendations
Enabling bit locker
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 References

Creating network intents for switchless

Creating network intents for switchless

  • The following steps will help configure network intents for management, compute, and storage.
    Note: Network ATC does not currently support auto-assigning of IPs for a switchless topology. Hence, for this scenario we will have to override the feature and assign SMB IPs manually. 

    $mgmt_compute_nics = @('pMgmtNic1','pMgmtNic2')
    $storage_nics = @('pRDMANic1','pRDMANic2', 'pRDMANic3','pRDMANic4', 'pRDMANic5','pRDMANic6',)
    $Mgmt_Vlan=202

    # Set QoS Override (only necessary if there’s a deviation from MS recommendations)
    $QoSOverride = New-NetIntentQoSPolicyOverrides
    $QoSOverride.BandwidthPercentage_Cluster = 2
    $QoSOverride.PriorityValue8021Action_Cluster = 5

    # RDMA/JumboPacket Override for SMB & Management NIC.
    $MgmtAdapterPropertyOverrides = New-NetIntentAdapterPropertyOverrides
    $MgmtAdapterPropertyOverrides.NetworkDirect = 0
    $MgmtAdapterPropertyOverrides.JumboPacket = 9014
    $StorAdapterPropertyOverrides = New-NetIntentAdapterPropertyOverrides
    $StorAdapterPropertyOverrides.JumboPacket = 9014

    #Set storageOverride to prevent ATC from setting IPs automatically.
    $storageOverride=New-NetIntentStorageOverrides 
    $storageOverride.EnableAutomaticIPGeneration = $false

    # Create Management and Commpute Intent
    Add-NetIntent -Name Management_Compute -Management -Compute -AdapterName $mgmt_compute_nics -ManagementVlan $Mgmt_Vlan -AdapterPropertyOverrides $MgmtAdapterPropertyOverrides

    # Create Storage Intent
    Add-NetIntent -Name Storage -Storage -AdapterName $storage_nics -QosPolicyOverrides $QoSOverride -AdapterPropertyOverrides $AdapterPropertyOverrides –storageOverride $ StorAdapterPropertyOverrides