Reference Guide

Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................... 4
Document scope....................................................................................................................................................................4
Audience and assumptions................................................................................................................................................... 4
Known issues..........................................................................................................................................................................4
Dell EMC Solutions for Azure Stack HCI overview........................................................................................................... 4
Deployment guidance............................................................................................................................................................5
Chapter 2: Day 0 Operations............................................................................................................ 6
Introduction............................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Activating the Windows operating system license............................................................................................................6
Creating virtual disks............................................................................................................................................................. 6
Dell EMC Solutions for Azure Stack HCI Life Cycle Management................................................................................. 6
Installing Windows Admin Center.................................................................................................................................. 7
Adding the HCI cluster connection................................................................................................................................7
Accessing the HCI cluster...............................................................................................................................................8
Viewing server details......................................................................................................................................................9
Viewing drive details...................................................................................................................................................... 10
Managing and monitoring volumes............................................................................................................................... 11
Enabling data deduplication on Storage Spaces Direct.............................................................................................12
Monitoring and managing virtual machines.................................................................................................................13
Managing virtual switches.............................................................................................................................................14
Managing Windows updates.........................................................................................................................................15
Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center........................................................ 15
Firmware updates using Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center for System
Center Virtual Machine Manager............................................................................................................................. 21
Conducting maintenance operations.......................................................................................................................... 24
Expanding the Azure Stack HCI cluster......................................................................................................................27
Extending volumes........................................................................................................................................................ 29
Performing AX node recovery..................................................................................................................................... 29
Operating system recovery.......................................................................................................................................... 32
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