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OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center Version 7.1.1 for System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager User’s Guide

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Creating Storage Spaces Direct clusters

Prerequisites

  • Ensure that you create a logical network by using the Configure 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 configurations match the Storage Spaces Direct solution firmware 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.

About this task

Consider the following before creating Storage Spaces Direct clusters:
  • You can create Storage Spaces Direct cluster in OMIMSSC by providing static IP address only.
  • Virtual disk size is displayed as zero in the Storage Spaces Direct predefined Operational Template. But, after applying the Storage Spaces Direct predefined Operational Template, the virtual drive is created only of size equal to the full size of the M.2 physical storage media. For more information about the virtual drive space, see iDRAC User’s Guide available at dell.com/support.

To create Storage Spaces Direct cluster, perform the following steps:

Steps

  1. In OMIMSSC, click Configuration and Deployment and then click Cluster View. The Cluster View page is displayed.
  2. Provide a cluster name, and select the predefined Operational Template for creating Storage Spaces Direct clusters.
    • Unassigned servers that belong only to a specific server model and NIC card are displayed based on the Operational Template you select from Operational Template drop-down menu.
  3. To add servers into a cluster, select the servers by using the check box.
  4. To add system-specific pool values, click Export Attribute Value Pool. Edit and save the file so that you can provide the system-specific pool values.
  5. (Optional) If you have to set system-specific values, in Attribute Value Pool, click Browse and select the edited .CSV file.
  6. Provide a unique job name, and click Create.

    To track this job, the Go to the Job List option is selected by default.

Next steps

To check if the clusters are created successfully:
  1. Check for success status of cluster job creation.
  2. View the cluster in Cluster View page.
  3. View the cluster in SCVMM.

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