Dell FluidFS Version 6.0 FS8600 Appliance Deployment Guide

Any of the following domain users can be used to join the cluster to Active Directory:

• Domain administrator account (preferred method)
• Domain account that has been delegated the join a computer to the domain privilege and full control over all computer objects in the domain
• Domain Organizational Unit (OU) administrator account that has been delegated the join a computer to the domain privilege and full control over objects within that OU, including computer objects
  • Before joining the FluidFS cluster to the domain, a computer object must be created by the OU administrator for the FluidFS cluster.
  • The FluidFS cluster computer object name and NetBIOS name must match.
  • The FluidFS cluster computer object permissions must be configured to allow the OU administrator account to join it to a domain.