Dell XC430, XC630, XC730, XC6420, XC6320 User Manual

Dell EMC XC Series Appliances and XC Core
Systems Best Practices for Running Windows
Server 2016 with Hyper-V

Abstract

This best practices guidance is aimed XC Series Appliances and Core
Systems configured to boot Hyper-V nodes from a Boot Optimi zed
Server Storage (BOSS) card boot device. This document provides
recommendations for maintaining the stabi l ity and performance of the
platform and workloads, while also preserving the operational lifetime of
the boot device.

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Dell EMC Best Practices

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Date

Description

January 2018

Initial release

August 2018

Updated content to include XC Core.

Revisions

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Table of contents

Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 3

Preface ................................................................................................................................................................................ 5

Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5

1 Boss card information ................................................................................................................................................... 6

1.1 Important information about the Boss (PCIe card s M . 2 Driv e) ........................................................................... 6

1.1.1 Examples of write intensive applicat i ons not to be run on the boot device ........................................................ 6

1.2 Redirection of SCOM and SCCM logs ............................................................................................................... 6

1.3 Run virtual machines on the Nutanix Distributed Fil e System only .................................................................... 6

1.4 Anti-malware software ........................................................................................................................................ 7

1.5 Limiting additional Microsoft roles ...................................................................................................................... 8

2 Required Microsoft updates ......................................................................................................................................... 9

2.1 Cluster Aware Updating feature ......................................................................................................................... 9

2.2 Mixed cluster recommendations ......................................................................................................................... 9

3 Kerberos enablement on Nutanix Hyper-V clusters ................................................................................................... 10

3.1 Kerberos time ................................................................................................................................................... 10

3.1.1 Time considerations ......................................................................................................................................... 10

4 Active Directory and DNS best practices ................................................................................................................... 12

4.1 Active Directory, Organizational Units ( OUs), and Group Policy Objects (GPOs) ........................................... 12

4.2 Disjointed domain and DNS namespace .......................................................................................................... 12

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