Owner's Manual

To deploy Hyper-V host with iSCSI storage using this template, perform the following steps:
1. On the Templates page, select the Deploy HyperV Cluster with iSCSI Storage template, and click
Clone
.
2. In the Create Template dialog box, enter a name and description for the template, and click Save
.
3. On the Template Builder page, click each storage components in swim lane, and configure the
following settings:
a. Under Settings
, Modify the Component Name and Storage Volume name with a unique name,
if required.
b. Under Storage Settings, make sure that you enter the storage size for the first volume is large
enough to support your Hyper-V host storage. However, the storage size for the second volume
can be small because it is configured as a quorum volume if this host will be used for a Hyper-V
cluster. The recommended second volume size is 512MB.
c. Verify the values for Storage Pool, Thin Provisioning, Snapshot Reserve %, Thin Min Reserve %,
Thin growth Warning %, Thin growth Maximum %, Thin warning on threshold %, Thin warning
on hard threshold %, and Multi-Host access of volume.
d. Select your Target EqualLogic iSCSI array.
e. Click Save.
4. On the Template Builder page, click each server components in the swim lane, and configure the
following settings for both the servers:
a. Modify the server
Component Name with a unique name, if required.
b. Retain the default selection of Local Hard Drive for Target Boot Device.
c. Select a Server Pool that contains a target server from the drop-down list.
d. Enter the Windows
Product Key for the Hyper-V server.
e. Select the Timezone and enter the IP address of the NTP Server for time synchronization.
f. Select the Language and Keyboard inputs if you want to change the default values.
g. Enter the Domain Name and FQ Domain Name to which you want to add the Hyper-V host.
h. Enter the Domain Admin Username and Domain Admin Password to add the Hyper-V host to
the domain. Enter the domain admin password to confirm.
i. Enter the Administrator password that you want to configure the deployed OS. Reenter the
administrator password to confirm.
NOTE: It is critical to update the password within this template. There is a masked value
present in the template, but there is no actual password set. If you do not set this
password, you will not be able to log in to the deployed server.
j. Select the OS Image configured
for Hyper-V to deploy within your ASM managed environment.
k. Retain the default selection of Hyper-V for OS Image Type.
l. Under Network Settings, update the network settings based on the hypervisor that you want to
deploy and the networks you have configured in your environment.
m. Click Save.
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