Administrator Guide

Ensure that your Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) infrastructure is available and functional.
Step 1 Verify that the storage is available and functional
1 If the iDRACs are connected, Dell recommends that you use a laptop. Con
gure the laptop and connect it to port 39 or 40 of the
switch, then complete the following steps.
2 From the laptop, connect to the IPv4 iDRAC address of one of the le serv
er cluster hosts by using a browser, for example, open
https://192.168.164.131.
3 Ping the le serv
er cluster hosts until they respond. It may take 10-20 minutes for them to be reachable. When the le server cluster
hosts start to respond, do the following:
a To connect to one of the hosts and start a virtual console, use the iDRAC.
b Log on with an account that is a member of the
< Prex >-Setup-Admins group.
c Start a Windows PowerShell session, and then run the following commands:
1 Get-StorageEnclosure to verify that all enclosures are up.
2 Get-ClusterSharedVolume to verify that all CSVs are online.
3 $p = Get-PhysicalDisk followed by $p.count . This should return 50, which is the number of physical disks on each rack (40
HDDs, 8 SSDs, 2 local drives).
4 Get-StoragePool to verify that the pool has been discovered and nd out it
s health state.
5
Get-VirtualDisk to verify whether all the spaces are online.
After you verify that the storage is running and healthy, continue to the next procedure.
Step 2 Ensure that the IPv4 cluster core resources are online
1 Use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to the Console VM with an account that is a member of the < Prex >-Setup-Admins
group.
2 Open Failover Cluster Manager.
3 Connect to the storage cluster.
4 Click the storage cluster name, and then, in the Cluster Core Resources pane, expand the server name.
5 If the IPv4 Address resources have a status of Oine, right-click each of them, and then click Bring Online.
6 In Failover Cluster Manager, connect to the compute cluster.
7 Click the compute cluster name, and then, in the Cluster Core Resources pane, expand the server name.
8 If the IPv4 Address resources have a status of Oine, right-click each of them, and then click Bring Online.
If you cannot connect to the compute cluster by using Failover Cluster Manager, you can alternatively do the following:
a Open Windows PowerShell.
b Run the following command to check if the Cluster IP resources are online:
Get-ClusterResource -Cluster <ClusterName> | where {$_.Name -like "Cluster IP Address*"}
c Run the following command to get the exact name of the cluster IP resources:
Get-ClusterResource -Cluster <ClusterName> | where {$_.Name -like "Cluster IP Address*"} | Format-List -Property Name
d Start the IP address resource:
Start-ClusterResource "<IP ClusterResourceName>"
Repeat steps 2 through 4 for each IPv4 address cluster resource for the compute cluster and storage cluster where these resources
ar
e oine.
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