Users Guide
Creating clusters using Operational Template
This chapter covers information about creating the Storage Spaces Direct clusters.
Creating logical switch for Storage Spaces Direct
clusters
About this task
Create logical switch from OMIMSSC in SCVMM.
NOTE: The IP address that is entered in Conguration for Management section overrides the IP address that is entered in
operating system component of Storage Spaces Direct predened Operational Template.
Steps
1 In OMIMSSC, expand Conguration and Deployment, click Cluster View, and then click Create logical switch for Cluster.
2 Provide a name for the logical switch, and select the host group present in SCVMM for associating the logical switch.
3 Provide the following details, and click Create.
a In Conguration for Management, provide the Subnet, Start IP, End IP, DNS Server, DNS Sux, and Gateway details.
NOTE
: Provide the subnet information in Classless InterDomain Routing (CIDR) notation.
b In Conguration for Storage, provide the VLAN, Subnet, Start IP, and End IP details.
4 enter a unique job name, description for the job, and click Create.
To track this job, the Go to the Job List option is selected by default.
Next steps
To verify that the logical switch is created successfully, check for the logical switch name in the drop-down menu listed in Create Cluster
page.
To view the details of the logical switch, perform the following steps in SCVMM:
1 To view the logical switch name, click Fabric, and in Networking, click Logical Switches.
2 To view the logical switch’s Uplink Port Prole (UPP), click Fabric, and in Networking, click Logical Switches.
3 To view the logical switch’s network, click Fabric, and in Networking, click Logical Networks.
Creating Storage Spaces Direct clusters
Prerequisites
• Ensure that you create a logical network by using the Congure Network for Cluster feature.
• Ensure that you are using SC2016 VMM.
• Ensure that you are using Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition
• Ensure that the managed servers congurations match the Storage Spaces Direct solution rmware and driver versions requirements.
For more information, see Dell EMC Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes PowerEdge R740XD and PowerEdge R640 Support Matrix
documentation.
• For infrastructure and management details of Storage Spaces Direct, see Dell EMC Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Node
Deployment Guide for scalable hyper-converged infrastructure with R740xd and R640 Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes
documentation.
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