Administrator Guide

Ensure that your Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) infrastructure is available, and functional.
Step 1: Power on the hardware devices
1 Power on the PDUs.
2 Ensure the on/o switch is on for the JBODs.
Step 2: Power on the le server cluster hosts
1 Power on the le server cluster hosts by using either of the following methods:
• Use the on/o switch on the front of the server, or
• If the iDRACs are connected, connect to the IPv4 iDRAC address of the host from the laptop that is connected to port 39 or 40 of
the switch by using a browser, for example, open https://192.168.164.131.
2 Expand Overview-Server-Power/Thermal. Click the Power Control tab. Click Power on System, and then click Apply.
3 Ping the le server cluster hosts until they respond. It might take 10-20 minutes for them to be reachable.
4 When the le server cluster hosts start responding, use the iDRAC to connect to one of the hosts and start a virtual console. Log on
with an account that is a member of the < Prex >-Ops-Admins group, open Windows PowerShell, and then run the following
commands:
a Get-StorageEnclosure to verify that all enclosures are online.
b $p = Get-PhysicalDisk followed by $p.count.
c Get-StoragePool to verify that the pool has been discovered and to view its health state.
d Get-VirtualDisk to verify whether all the storage spaces are online.
After you verify that the storage is running and healthy, continue to the next step.
Step 3: Power on the compute cluster hosts
1 Power on the compute cluster hosts by using either of the following methods:
• The on/o switch on the front of the server, or
• If the iDRACs are connected, connect to the IPv4 iDRAC address of the hosts by using a browser, for example, https://
192.168.164.133, on the laptop that is connected to port 39 or 40 of the switch.
2 Ping the compute cluster hosts until they respond. It may take 10-20 minutes for them to be reachable.
Step 4: Power on the infrastructure VMs and tenant VMs
Use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to the Console VM with an account that is a member of the < Prex >-Setup-Admins group.
NOTE
: You might have to wait an hour or longer from the time you turned on the compute cluster hosts to perform this step.
1 Open Failover Cluster Manager.
2 Connect to the compute cluster.
3 Click Roles. Check the state of the VMs. The < Prex >CON01 VM should be running.
4 From Failover Cluster Manager, start the following infrastructure VMs:
a <Prex>SQL01
b <Prex>SQL02
5 Wait until the VMs in the SQL Server guest cluster are in a Running state.
6 From Failover Cluster Manager, connect to the SQL Server guest cluster (< Prex >SQLCL.) Click Roles, and verify that both
instances (SQLIN01 and SQLIN02) are online. If not, right-click the role, and then click Start Role.
7 After all SQL Server instances are online, in Failover Cluster Manager, connect back to the compute cluster, and start the remaining
infrastructure VMs in the following order:
a <Prex>VMM01
b <Prex>OM01
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