E2E Deployment and Operations Guide with Stretched Cluster: Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

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  Introduction
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  Document overview
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  Audience and scope

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  Solution overview
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  Introduction
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  Solution integration and network architecture

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  Solution deployment
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  Introduction
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  PAL and DPOR registration for Azure Stack
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  Install roles and features
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  Configuring a cluster witness
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  Deployment prerequisites for stretched clusters
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  Customer network team requirements
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  Design principles and best practices
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  Validated network topology

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  Creating a stretched cluster
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  Introduction
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  Test-Cluster
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  Cluster creation
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  Configuring host networking
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  Creating a cluster
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  Configuring a cluster witness
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  Creating required intents for a stretched cluster
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  Volumes
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  Storage efficiency
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  Test-SRTopology

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  Virtual Machines
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  Introduction
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  VM and storage affinity rules
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  Preferred sites

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  Failure/Recovery from failure of Site/Node
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  Planned failover
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  Operation steps

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  Appendices
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  Appendix A: Sample PowerShell cmdlets for end-to-end deployment
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  Appendix B: Supported hardware

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  Day 1 operations
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  Azure onboarding for Azure Stack HCI operating system
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  Creating virtual disks

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  Managing and monitoring clusters with Windows Admin Center
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  Overview
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  Access the HCI cluster
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  View server details
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  View drive details
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  Managing and monitoring volumes
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  Enabling data deduplication on Storage Spaces Direct
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  Monitoring and managing VMs
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  Managing virtual switches

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  Dell OpenManage Integration with Windows Admin Center
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  Overview
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  Prerequisites for managing AX nodes
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  Installing the OMIMSWAC license
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  Managing Microsoft HCI-based clusters
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  Full Stack Cluster-Aware Offline Updating
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  Full Stack Cluster-Aware Updating for Azure Stack HCI clusters using the OpenManage Integration snap-in
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  Updating a standalone node before adding it to the cluster
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  Secure cluster with Secured-core
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  Enabling operating system features
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  Protect your infrastructure with infrastructure lock
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  Manage CPU cores in Azure Stack HCI clusters
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  Validate and remediate Azure Stack HCI clusters
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  Onboard Dell policies to Azure Arc from Windows Admin Center to manage Azure Stack HCI clusters
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  View recommendations for storage expansion
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  Known issues

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  Updates and maintenance
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  Firmware and driver updates using the manual method
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  Restarting a cluster node or taking a cluster node offline
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  Expanding the Azure Stack HCI cluster
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  Extending volumes
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  Performing AX node recovery
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  Operating system recovery

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  References
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  Dell Technologies documentation
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  Microsoft documentation