Deployment Guide

33 Dell EMC XC Xpress Hyper-Converged Appliance Deployment Guide for ESXi | A02
3. On the NTP Servers dialog box, do one of the following.
a. To add an NTP server, in the NTP Server box, type the server IP address or fully qualified host
name and then click Add. The name or address is added to the HOST NAME OR IP ADDRESS
list (below the NTP Server field).
b. To delete an NTP server entry, in the Servers list, click the delete (x) icon for that server.
c. In the dialog box that appears to verify the action; click OK. The server is removed from the list.
d. Click Close.
A.3 Domain Name Server (DNS) requirements
The following are the requirements for DNS:
 Each XC host must be assigned a name of 15 characters or less, which gets automatically added to
the DNS server during domain joining.
 The XC storage cluster must be assigned a name of 15 characters or less, which must be added to
the DNS server when the storage cluster is joined to the domain.
A.4 Networking recommendations
For network switch configuration information, see your documentation from your switch vendor. See the
Fabric Manager for XC Xpress User’s Guide. This describes what you must configure for your network to be
functional for Dell EMC XC Xpress.