The audience for this operations guide includes systems administrators, systems engineers, field consultants, partner engineering team members, and customers with a fair amount of knowledge in deploying hyperconverged infrastructures with Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V and Storage Spaces Direct.

We assume that deployment personnel have prerequisite knowledge, including knowledge of:

• Dell EMC Solutions for Azure Stack HCI, and deployment and configuration of BIOS and iDRAC settings on the Dell EMC AX nodes
• Deployment and configuration of Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V infrastructure