Overview of host clusters | E2E Deployment and Operations Guide with Switchless Networking (Windows) | Dell Technologies Info Hub

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Overview of host clusters

Overview of host clusters

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After joining the cluster nodes to an Active Directory domain, you can create a host cluster and configure it for Storage Spaces Direct.
- Creating the host cluster
  Verify that the nodes are ready for cluster creation, and then create the host cluster.
- 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.
- Configuring the host management network as a lower-priority network for live migration
  After you create the cluster, live migration is configured by default to use all available networks.
- Updating the page file settings
  To help ensure that the active memory dump is captured if a fatal system error occurs, allocate sufficient space for the page file. Dell Technologies recommends allocating at least 50 GB plus the size of the CSV block cache.
- Configuring a cluster witness