Dell Deployment Guide Does Not Support Deploying a Windows Cluster with Windows Admin Center 

Windows Admin Center has a cluster Deployment feature. Dell does not support this feature.

Make all nodes match and then make the networks match.

Basic Unconverged:
Two Storage NICs Unclustered each have an IP subnet and gateway with unique subnets.

• Separate vLANs
• RDMA enabled Setup, QOS if needed 

Steps:

1. Ensure the Storage NICs get the right PowerShell to enable RoCE or iWARP.

 

2. Clear up any old setups before deploying a pool.
3. Name the NICs and give them an IP address.

$S1Nic = Get-netadapter -name "slot1 port1"
$S2Nic = Get-Netadapter  -name "slot2 port2"
$S1vlan = "12"
$S1vlan= "21"

Set-NetAdapter -Name $S1Nic -VlanID $S1vlan -Confirm:$false
Set-NetAdapter -Name $S2Nic -VlanID $S2vlan -Confirm:$false

 
Management team
Use the Guide for PowerShell steps.
 

$MgmtNicName = Management
$MgmtNic1= get-netadapter -name Nic1
$MgmtNic1 = Get-netadapter2 -name Nic2
$mgmtvlan = "31"
Install-WindowsFeature -Name Hyper-V,Failover-Clustering,Data-Center-Bridging,BitLocker -IncludeManagementTools -IncludeAllSubFeature -Confirm:$false

New-VMSwitch -Name $VMSwitchName -AllowManagementOS 0 -NetAdapterName $MgmtNic1 ,$MgmtNic2 -MinimumBandwidthMode Weight -Verbose -Confirm:$false

Add-VMNetworkAdapter -ManagementOS -name $MgmtNicName -SwitchName $VMSwitchName –StaticMacAddress $RMAC -Confirm:$false
   Set-VmNetworkadapterVlan -name $mgmtNicName -managementOS -access -vlanid $mgmtvlan

 
You must set all IP addresses and several other settings. This results in basic functions to get the user back.

#Enable Jumbo Frames
    Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -Name $S1Nic,$S2Nic -DisplayName "Jumbo Packet" -DisplayValue "9014" -Confirm:$false
   
#Set RDMA
    If((Get-NetAdapter $S1Nic,$S2Nic | Select InterfaceDescription) -imatch "QLogic"){
        Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -Name $S1Nic -DisplayName 'NetworkDirect Technology' -DisplayValue 'iWarp' -Confirm:$false
        Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -Name $S2Nic -DisplayName 'NetworkDirect Technology' -DisplayValue 'iWarp' -Confirm:$false
    }
    If((Get-NetAdapter $S1Nic,$S2Nic | Select InterfaceDescription) -imatch "Mellanox"){
        Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -Name $S1Nic -DisplayName 'DcbxMode' -DisplayValue 'Host In Charge' -Confirm:$false
        Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -Name $S2Nic -DisplayName 'DcbxMode' -DisplayValue 'Host In Charge' -Confirm:$false
    }

 
Once all steps are done, create the pool and cluster.

Complete these steps but do the above steps first.

New-Cluster –Name MyCLuster1  –Node MYNODE1,MYNODE2 –NoStorage
  
Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect –CimSession  MyCLuster1
 
1..(Get-ClusterNode).count| % {New-Volume -FriendlyName Volume$_ -FileSystem CSVFS_ReFS -StoragePoolFriendlyName $(Get-StoragePool -IsPrimordial $false).FriendlyName -StorageTierSizes 1GB -StorageTierFriendlyNames Performance}

Do not forget to enter your names and your sizes!
 
Also, do not forget there should be some networking setup for each node before you run these.

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