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Is this guide supporting the deploy Azure Stack HCI environment with Network ATC?

Tried deploying with Network ATC but failed deploy host network settings with the following error.

Error: Exception calling "ReadExistingGoalStatesForAllNodes" with "2" argument(s): "Failed to open local cluster"

I'm guessing that CNO's IP address is lost during the host networking settings deployment because the CNO's IP address is not showing in Hyper-V manager after the host networking settings deployment. Also not finished the configuration for the ConvergedNic3 because the network adapter has lost IP address.

Environnement Info:

• Azure Stack HCI OS: 10.0.20348.288
• Windows Admin Center: Version 2110, Build 1.3.2111.01001
• Using Azure VM with nested virtualization.

Following through the guide , cluster and two nodes are up .
Before creating VM , volume should be prepared for VM
Currently its failing with below error .. how do we resolve this issue ?

Couldn't create the volume. Error: The variable '$ParityTier' cannot be retrieved because it has not been set.

I was able to install the Cluster with two node. I was trying to install AKS on the Node. however, I am keep getting the CredSSP error. I went disabling and enabled the CredSSP with role Server on the MGMT01, and disable and enable the CredSSP with Client role on the nodes. still the same.

Error: Couldn't enable CredSSP delegation. Error: Processing data from remote server MGMT01 failed with the following error message: Could not find the role capability, 'MS-CredSSP-Admin'. The role capability must be a file named 'MS-CredSSP-Admin.psrc' within a 'RoleCapabilities' directory in a module in the current module path. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.

Not an issue but a request? I have found that using the auto-update feature for WAC sometimes doesn't work. So the next solution is to click the link to download WAC. However, that doesn't work either cause WAC was deployed on the host which is now a Domain controller. Would it be possible in future releases to have the solution deploy a third VM on the host along with node01 and node02 and have WAC deployed to that VM?

Validation cluster failed when retrieving report:

Hello, I'm getting the "Test Report" issue when trying to validate the cluster. I've followed the workaround, but still it persists. Oddly I also have notifications in Windows Admin Center stating "successfully validated the cluster". However the test report issue is preventing me from progressing to the next step. Any help would be much appreciated!

In WAC wizard vmswitch failed because Hyper-V-PowerShell module is not installed on each nodes.

Following instructions on https://github.com/Azure/AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide/blob/main/nested/steps/4_AzSHCICluster.md I got an error message at ComputeSwitch creation in Windows Admin Center

This is a Nested setup and I followed all instructions (except I change 192.168.0.x/24 IP range with my own 192.168.10.x/24)

Part 3a of this guide under section "Enable the Hyper-V Role on your Azure Stack HCI Node" is missing the $nodeName in the script.
(https://github.com/Azure/AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide/blob/main/nested/steps/3a_AzSHCINodesGUI.md#enable-the-hyper-v-role-on-your-azure-stack-hci-node)
As a workaround, I created the variable for each node and ran through the script.

Used this Eval Guide to create a nested HCI instance in Azure Commercial...guide was fantastic and worked great. Problem I have as of this morning, when I start my Host VM, the cluster nodes will no longer start. I get the message in the image attached below:

When creating a second host, the user needs to modify the value of the $nodeName and $newIP variables. However, the $nodeName is set multiple times during the script, and the $newIP is pretty buried in the code and hard to spot. I would suggest to put those at the very beginning of the code in https://github.com/Azure/AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide/blob/main/nested/steps/3b_AzSHCINodesPS.md, so that the code is more reusable.

Thanks!

The deployment is tied to the resource group location. If you create a new resource group in the workflow and then update the location (which comes after the resource group creation), the deployment actually ends up in the default region (where the resource group got created) instead of the selected region in the parameters.

hey folks, seems like i have hit a brick wall. i cannot get past the "define networks" section. behavior is very erratic; sometime i get lucky and the following error is displayed:

"We couldn’t configure network adapters. Please try again. Error: Connecting to remote server 11.0.0.6 failed with the following error message : WinRM cannot complete the operation. Verify that the specified computer name is valid, that the computer is accessible over the network, and that a firewall exception for the WinRM service is enabled and allows access from this computer. By default, the WinRM..." --> to eliminate this i have created a gpo which will allow some traffic

In some other cases, WAC itself crashes. When this happens WAC displays thh following "Error Couldn't get user info. Source
Go to source. Type Error Message ajax error

And in some others, some NICs do get configured. What is common is that CPU usage across all HCI nodes goes up to 25%.
Any hints or ideas? thanks.

Hi there, I cannot get to the actual Cluster Validation process. In step 3.1 "Validate Cluster", I get the following error message instantly: "Something went wrong with enabling the Credential Security Support Provider protocol (CredSSP). This is a known issue that may be fixed in a future Windows Admin Center update. See the known issues section of the documentation at aka.ms/deploy-hci for instructions to work around this issue."
The notification says a bit more:
"Could not validate cluster. Error: The workflow to enable CredSSP has been completed, but there was an error. Connecting to remote server mgmt01 failed with the following error message : The WS-Management service cannot process the request. Cannot find the microsoft.sme.powershell session configuration in the WSMan: drive on the mgmt01 computer. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic."
The doc says "If the Credential Security Service Provider (CredSSP) pop-up appears, select Yes to temporarily enable CredSSP for the wizard to continue. Once your cluster is created and the wizard has completed, you'll disable CredSSP to increase security.", but there's no popup nor the Message Box mentioned in the present guide.
I've run all the workarounds in the "Troubleshoot" section, rebooted everyone, but still no luck.
Any idea ? Something missing in MGMT01 ?

Trying to deploy the Template into Azure, it fails at the AzSHCIHost001/ConfigureAzSHCIHost.

The error which is returned is:
"statusMessage": "{"status":"Failed","error":{"code":"ResourceOperationFailure","message":"The resource operation completed with terminal provisioning state 'Failed'.","details":[{"code":"VMExtensionProvisioningError","message":"VM has reported a failure when processing extension 'ConfigureAsHciHost'. Error message: \"DSC Configuration 'ASHCIHost' completed with error(s). Following are the first few: Exception setting \"TargetPath\": \"Interface not registered\r\n\r\nFailed to find proxy registration for IID: {ADD8BA80-002B-11D0-8F0F-00C04FD7D062}.\" The PowerShell DSC resource '[cShortcut]BuildScript' with SourceInfo 'C:\\Packages\\Plugins\\Microsoft.Powershell.DSC\\2.83.2.0\\DSCWork\\ashcihost.0\\ashcihost.ps1::106::5::cShortcut' threw one or more non-terminating errors while running the Set-TargetResource functionality. These errors are logged to the ETW channel called Microsoft-Windows-DSC/Operational. Refer to this channel for more details. The SendConfigurationApply function did not succeed. LCM failed to start desired state configuration manually.\"\r\n\r\nMore information on troubleshooting is available at https://aka.ms/VMExtensionDSCWindowsTroubleshoot "}]}}",

Thanks.

Hello,

Where can I find the evaluation guide for deployment on Physical Hardware. This used to be part 1a of the original evaluation guide. (part 1b was to deploy in Azure)

Thanks

Even when using a MGMT or from the HOST itsself, these are the modules required for the registration:
Install-Module Az.Accounts
Install-Module Az.Resources
Install-Module AzureAD
Install-Module Az.StackHCI (only this one is mentioned)

Trying to deploy the Arm template into Azure, it fails at the AzSHCIHost001/ConfigureAzSHCIHost step, the error which is returned is:
{
"status": "Failed",
"error": {
"code": "VMExtensionProvisioningError",
"message": "VM has reported a failure when processing extension 'ConfigureAzSHCIHost'. Error message: "DSC Configuration 'AzSHCIHost' completed with error(s). Following are the first few: PowerShell DSC resource MSFT_ScriptResource failed to execute Set-TargetResource functionality with error message: Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'AD' does not exist. The SendConfigurationApply function did not succeed. LCM failed to start desired state configuration manually."\r\n\r\nMore information on troubleshooting is available at https://aka.ms/VMExtensionDSCWindowsTroubleshoot "
}
}

Region is East US, and Resource Group name is AzSHCILabRg, attempted using both MSDN and Internal accounts.

Team
I am at the step where the VM is created, and I am supposed to run some script :https://github.com/Azure/AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide/blob/main/deployment/steps/1_DeployAzureVM.md#troubleshooting
Unfortunatly I am blocked here. According to the documentation I am am supposed to have a directory but it is not there

Could you advise me ?
Thanks a lot
fred

Hello,

Whene I choice the VM sku "Standard_E16ds_v4", it's impossible to install Hyper-V role on nesteed VM.
“Please ensure nested virtualization is enabled in order to successfully install Hyper-V on azshcinode0X.azshci.local.”

But nesteed features are enabled on the VM:

With the sku "Standard_E16s_v4" I don't have issue.

Thanks

On the last step of Set Up AKS, my cluster keeps getting this error.. what's wrong? Seems as if the cluster is trying a dead 404..

Message
Applying platform configurations failed. Error: GetCatalog error returned by API call: Post "https://msk8s.api.cdp.microsoft.com/api/v1.1/contents/default/namespaces/default/names/aks-hci-stable-catalogs-int/versions/latest?action=select": POST https://msk8s.api.cdp.microsoft.com/api/v1.1/contents/default/namespaces/default/names/aks-hci-stable-catalogs-int/versions/latest?action=select giving up after 6 attempt(s): Received unexpected response code: 404

Hi - just ran into this, impossible for MGMT01 to join AZSHCI or azshci.local domain, "An AD DC for azshci.local could not be contacted". I suspected a DNS server issue on DC01, and found many 4013 warnings in the DNS Server event log, obtained with WAC running on MGMT01.
warning 4013 description: The DNS server is waiting for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to signal that the initial synchronization of the directory has been completed. The DNS server service cannot start until the initial synchronization is complete because critical DNS data might not yet be replicated onto this domain controller. If events in the AD DS event log indicate that there is a problem with DNS name resolution, consider adding the IP address of another DNS server for this domain to the DNS server list in the Internet Protocol properties of this computer. This event will be logged every two minutes until AD DS has signaled that the initial synchronization has successfully completed.

Quick advice could be adding a "how to trigger this initial synchronization" line.
I got the WS 2019 version 1809 from the URL and passed all Windows Update as recommended. The OS Build is now 10.0.17763.737. Maybe this issue is related to some update after you wrote the tutorial.

When Creating Cluster Task: Add the cluster to Windows Admin Center

Adding URI https:// NC01.contoso.com

Error Dialogue "You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression"

Invalid URI

Checked SDNExpressLog and Network Controller successfully installed NC01.contoso.com.

the scripts always refere to the main branch. This causes deployments issues and also brake the deployment for the 21H2 branch.
link from the deployment:
https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.Template/uri/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FAzure%2FAzureStackHCI-EvalGuide%2Fmain%2Fdeployment%2Fjson%2Fazshcihost.json

I created my entire management infrastructure using the guides (which are very well written - both GUI and PowerShell), before I learned that nested virtualization is not supported on AMD CPUs. It's by far the most requested feature on User Voice (https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/295047-general-feedback/suggestions/31734808-nested-virtualization-for-amd-epyc-and-ryzen), and I'm sure this will be a frequent issue for testers. The official documentation that states this is at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/user-guide/nested-virtualization. There may be other issues that users will run into, so referencing that document might be useful.

I'd recommend adding the restriction information to the very beginning of the physical deployment guide (along with the discussion of hardware memory requirements and other caveats). Depending on steps taken, this could waste many hours of IT Pros' time.

The good (or at least, better) news is that support has reportedly been added in recent preview builds (I haven't checked this myself). As of right now, though, AMD-based users can't take advantage of any of the "physical" deploment options. Had I known, I would have considered setting up an Azure test environment, instead.

Hi, ive been following this guide so far.

I have a simple Domain Joined server with Windows 2022 and Windows Admin Center.
My Hyper-V host is running fine and I have two VM with the latest Stack HCI source.
Also Latest Admin Center, fresh installed.

When i get the the Cluster Define Network I'm stuck:

I tried every combination, private switch, internal switch, or external switch
Different IP scheme, more VNIC,
I can ping each scheme from the VM (shell).

I dont get why i would have a WINRM issue when i did configure everything else so far.
I restarted all, vm, tried again. always gets to the same point.

Configuring Storage and Computer Network

Hyper-V VM networking

Creating Vswitches

ipconfig from the two VM:

Testing Cluster Network

Error:

Error:

We couldn't configure adapter

Message

We couldn't configure adapter
Error
We couldn’t configure and test network adapters. Please try again. Error: (1) RemoteException: The WinRM client cannot process the request. Default authentication may be used with an IP address under the following conditions: the transport is HTTPS or the destination is in the TrustedHosts list, and explicit credentials are provided. Use winrm.cmd to configure TrustedHosts. Note that computers in the TrustedHosts list might not be authenticated. For more information on how to set TrustedHosts run the following command: winrm help config.

(2) RemoteException: The WinRM client cannot process the request. Default authentication may be used with an IP address under the following conditions: the transport is HTTPS or the destination is in the TrustedHosts list, and explicit credentials are provided. Use winrm.cmd to configure TrustedHosts. Note that computers in the TrustedHosts list might not be authenticated. For more information on how to set TrustedHosts run the following command: winrm help config.

Any logs on the hosts i should look at?

I did try the steps listed in the tshooting section:
cd "C:\Packages\Plugins\Microsoft.Powershell.DSC*\DSCWork\azshcihost.0\AzSHCIHost"
Set-DscLocalConfigurationManager -Path . -Force
Start-DscConfiguration -Path . -Wait -Force -Verbose

But still getting the following:

Hi, in WAC Cluster Creation, at step 2 "networking", at step 2.4 "virtual switch", I select the adapter named "VMs" on each node, click "Apply and Test", and I get "Couldn't configure adapter", on both adapters, with following error message:
Exception calling "Invoke" with "0" argument(s): "The term 'Set-VMSwitch' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again."


I rebooted both nodes, but same error occurs, and I can't get past to enter "Clustering" step... Any idea ?
The build of WAC is Version 2007, 1.2.2007.18002 that I got from the download links at the beginning of the guide.

after running the script we got
000010b8.00000540::2021/12/08-19:34:02.433 INFO [Provider {29d1f3ee-dbcf-44e9-b0cc-085bfa362499}] StoragePoolEventInterpreter::ProcessPoolTransactionEvents - Wrote HealthDataStore at key:{xxxxxxxxx}:SP:{xxxxxx} name:StoragePoolFailureEventData with value 132834525225620000, EventStatus:3221226593. -- > STATUS_DISK_RESOURCES_EXHAUSTED The physical resources of this disk have been exhausted

There is a typo at the Network Controller URL:
https://nc01.contoso**c**.com --> https://nc01.contoso.com

It's not working If you want to add to Network Controller Endpoint in Windows Admin Center --> "Invalid URL"

I followed the guide pretty much to the letter but right at the end, I am unable to create any VMs (with a not-to-helpful error message).

It seems to create the hard disk but a tiny one (4096KB). I specified 5GB as per the guide.

I'm running under nested Virtualization on my AMD Desktop Machine. I have collected diagnostics ( at https://file.io/cyMZyGuTgJPu ). Happy to do a screenshare

I am registering my cluster EvalGuide to azure following the instructions found here via Windows Admin Center https://github.com/Azure/AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide/blob/main/deployment/steps/3_AzSHCIIntegration.md

I am receiving the following error:

Failed to register with Azure for cluster: azstackcluster.contoso.com. Error: RemoteException: Failed to register. Couldn't generate self-signed certificate on node(s) AzSHOST1,AzSHOST2,AzSHOST1,AzSHOST2. Couldn't set and verify registration certificate on node(s) AzSHOST1,AzSHOST2,AzSHOST1,AzSHOST2. Make sure every clustered node is up and has Internet connectivity (at least outbound to Azure).

I'm quite new on HCI so I don't know where to start... any advice?
N

DSC Extension fails to create AD Forest during deployment.

The password supplied to the Desired State Configuration resource MSFT_ADDomain
is not valid. The password cannot be null or empty.

Results in unsuccessful deployment.

It seems like a bug that when I go to register a cluster one of the three option is West Europe yet I cannot get it to register there as it says it is not available. I had to register it in East US to get it to finally register. Is that going to either be removed from the drop down list or is West Europe support immanent?

So in the Eval guide

https://github.com/Azure/AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide/blob/main/deployment/steps/1_DeployAzureVM.md

It says you can sign up for free Azure acocunt , get the $200 free and you'll have plenty resource to try

"The second option would be to sign up for a free trial, which gives you $200 credit for the first 30 days, and 12 months of popular services for free. The credit for the first 30 days will give you plenty of headroom to validate Azure Stack HCI."

Well did that and have my free account. Now to try and deploy the template, it want a 16vCPU count and free account is limite3d to 4vCPU. Tried the upgrade to Pay as You go and now i aint got any CPU's. Really wanted to do the eval but looks like might not be able to going by the guide.

Commentrs? Why say you can try for free when it appears not?

image link: https://github.com/Azure/AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide/blob/main/deployment/media/nested_virt_arch_ga_oct21.png

please replace this image with the working one

this image not available if we go to the page (https://github.com/Azure/AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide/blob/main/deployment/steps/1_DeployAzureVM.md) .

The Update Lab Guide for Azure Stack HCI 21 H2 is faulty beyond - Part 3 - Explore Azure Stack HCI Management

The Azure Stack HCI 21H2 - Evaluation Guide - https://github.com/Azure/AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide works fine up till Lab 3 Perfectly.

Lab 4 has major issues when creating Volume - https://github.com/Azure/AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide/blob/main/deployment/steps/4_ExploreAzSHCI.md#create-volumes-for-vms

I have run in around 7 different instance in 4 different Azure Tenants and was not able to get past below this point.

There is no Error, no notification, nothing to check after clicking on create volume "In Size on HDD, specify 20GB for the size of the volume, then click Create."

I even rebuild the Nodes from scratch using the Azure Stack HCI 20H2 - Evaluation Guide - No luck

I have even added another member server and installed Windows Admin Center on it and then created cluster - No luck.

I am sure other have also faced the same problem but may be too busy to post it here.

Anything insight or guidance would be greatly appreciated

I'm following the steps in the guide but the connectivity test doesn't pass on 'Define Network' pages. Do you know how to pass the test?

I have already updated Cluster Creation Extension - version 2.38.0

Error details:

• Message:
  We couldn't configure adapter
• Error:
  We couldn’t configure and test network adapters. Please try again. Error: Command already contains prefix

I am attempting to set up Azure Stack HCI cluster for evaluation by following the guide as part of the HCI 20H2 using Nested Virtualization
https://github.com/Azure/AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide/blob/main/nested/steps/4_AzSHCICluster.md

I have been able to proceed through parts 1-3 and have my management VM, my domain controller, and 2 nodes set up, but am getting stuck during part 4 (creating cluster) of the guide in the Networking Step 2.5 - Define Networks.
When I get to Networking, I am able to set up everything until the Define networks step. There, I have left Ethernet 2 alone, and set up Ethernet 3 to be Storage 1 on each node, and Ethernet 4 to be Storage 2 on each node. Regardless of how I set up the IP addresses, I cannot get the cluster report to generate and proceed to the actual cluster creation.

Error Details:

I haven't been able to find anything about why the operations are failing, or what I can do to possibly resolve it. Can anyone help me out, either with some step-by-step guides.

I've checked the following post and the others related to the AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/236938/unable-to-configure-networking-on-nested-setup.html

As per the guide I have run the related commands to Troubleshooting cluster validation issues CredSSP issue - "During testing, you may see an issue initiating cluster validation due to a CredSSP issue."

Help!
Thanks Pradip!

Pardon my Hyper-V ignorance but I cannot seem to give the MGMT VM access to the internet to perform Azure registration and updates etc. I tried attaching a second adapter of type "External" but that alone didn't do the trick. Any help would be appreciated! Also I tried following the steps in this guide https://jimmoldenhauer.blogspot.com/2016/05/hyper-v-internal-network-with-internet.html and now the Azure VM is inaccessible ....if anyone knows of a way to fix that that'd be great!

I am not sure if this is something I am doing wrong. I am working through the step Deploy nested Azure Stack HCI 20H2 nodes with the GUI.

The command I ran(with the VM powered off):

Set-VMProcessor -VMName AZSHCINODE01 -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true -Verbose

The command looked to run without error. I proceeded through the guide without issue until I came to the point where I tried to create the cluster in Windows Admin Center. Everything went ok until Install Features step. Every feature except Hyper-V installed fine. The message regarding the installation of Hyper-V stated:

"Please ensure nested virtualization is enabled in order to successfully install Hyper-V on..."

In troubleshooting, I deployed a separate VM, this time running Windows 2019 Server. I went ahead and tried to install the Hyper-V role. At this point, I neglected to run that Set-VMProcessor... command against it. The role failed with a similar message as the Azure HCI vm.

I powered off the 2019 Server and ran that Set-VMProcessor... command. Again, it looked to run just fine.

I started up the 2019 server and retried installing the Hyper-V role. This time, the role installed successfully and I have this test box running fine.

This issue seems to be applying the Set-VMProcessor command against a vm running Azure Stack HCI OS.

Please let me know if this is helpful.

Thanks,

Jim

It doesn't look like that below steps have not the latest screen.
"2_DeployAzSHCI.md"
- "Networking"
- "Clustering"
I can't proccess creation cluster. Cloud you update these page for latest?

Not an issue...more of a suggestion.

Within the https://github.com/Azure/AzureStackHCI-EvalGuide/blob/main/nested/steps/3a_AzSHCINodesGUI.md#enable-the-hyper-v-role-on-your-azure-stack-hci-node section of 3a, I would suggest adding a sleep timer between commands for stop-vm and start-vm to stop powershell dropping an error.
This was picked up on my HV host as its slightly older but would reduce false positives.
I used 5 seconds for each and seemed a good amount of time.
If included a screenshot/snippet of what I put in each of the "Rebooting node for changes to take effect" sections:

Hi Matt,

Thoughts on why AZSHCINODE01 might be denying MGMT access?

Hello ,I tried to deploy AzureStack HCI SDN, All the NC,MUX,GW,VM are good to deploy ,finnally it failed to deploy and get the error below :
C:\ISO\SDN-master\SDN-master\SDNExpress\scripts\SDNExpress.ps1 : Terminating error was thrown while executing
'C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\networkcontroller\Microsoft.NetworkController.Powershell.dll' operation on the
server side endpoint 'https://sdn.azshci.local/networking/V1/operations/063640bb-c765-4b4f-b2f1-4feaf208514b'.
At line:1 char:1

• .\SDNExpress.ps1 -ConfigurationDataFile MultiNodeSampleConfig.psd1 -V ...

•   + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (https://sdn.azs...f1-4feaf208514b:Uri) [SDNExpress.ps1], InvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ODataEndpointProxyInvokeFailure,SDNExpress.ps1
  
  

that would be really appreciated if someone knew this issue and help me out of this issue.

What files/parameters need to be modified so that my team can deploy multiple instances of an Eval HCI cluster in a single tenant/sub? My team has a need to have an HCI instance for each dev to work independently. Since each HCI instance will create app registrations, when using the guided eval to create the instance it does not have the flexibility to change the name of the cluster and therefor the app registrations.

Is there a way for us to edit scripts that get run to provide the uniqueness?

Hello Team,

I've setup the NICs with the static IP address. However, after reboot the IP address chnaged back to DHCP. This is happening for almost all NICs. When I'm trying to change the IP address back to static then I get below error.

"Failed to release DHCP lease"
Result Code: 83

PFA screenshot for your reference. PLease can you help?

Not sure if what I want to do is even possible but let's say you have successfully completed the guide (following all of the instructions) and deployed the cluster with Hyper-V nested virtualisation. You will end up with 4 VMs,

• 1 Domain Controller
• 1 Workstation Windows 10 VM
• 2 HCI Node VMs

They are connected to the NAT switch. You deploy your first VM on the Stack HCI cluster and you want to join it to the Domain (let's assume it is a secondary domain controller you are trying to deploy). As the only domain controller existing outside of the Stack Cluster I don't think it will be able to see the existing Domain controller.

This might be impossible or it might a simple nested virtualisation/networking question but my mind is drawing a blank. The VMs are connected to an 'external' compute switch on the Stack HCI nodes but I don't think they will be able to see the Domain controller on the Nat switch on my top level hypervisor host

How do I extend the existing domain into the cluster network where the VMs will be located?

Hi Team,

When creating the 1st Node (Node 01) the instruct mentioned to created 4 Disk of 100 GB there (Data01,Data02,Data03,Data04)

1. It doesn't mention why we we need 4 disks here
2. When create the 2nd Node - do we need to repeat 4 Disks for Node02 as well? Data01.vhdx, Data02.vhdx and so on.

It is unclear in this steps.

The powershell - Copy and Paste doesnt seem to work.

Error:

Invoke-Command : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'VMName'. The argument is null or empty. Provide an argument
that is not null or empty, and then try the command again.
At line:1 char:24

• Invoke-Command -VMName "$nodeName" -Credential $domainCreds -ScriptBl ...

•                    ~~~~~~~~~~~
  

  • CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Invoke-Command], ParameterBindingValidationException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeCommandCommand