NetApp HCI might take some time to validate the IP addresses you enter. The
Continue button becomes available when IP address validation completes.
8. On the
Review
page in the Network Settings section, new nodes are shown in the bold text. To make
changes in any section, do the following:
a. Click
Edit
for that section.
b. After you finish, click
Continue
on any subsequent pages to return to the Review page.
9.
Optional
: If you do not want to send cluster statistics and support information to NetApp hosted Active IQ
servers, clear the final checkbox.
This disables real-time health and diagnostic monitoring for NetApp HCI. Disabling this feature removes the
ability for NetApp to proactively support and monitor NetApp HCI to detect and resolve issues before
production is impacted.
10. Click
Add Nodes
.
You can monitor the progress while NetApp HCI adds and configures the resources.
11.
Optional
: Verify that any new storage nodes are visible in the Element Plug-in for vCenter Server.
If you expanded a two-node storage cluster to four nodes or more, the pair of Witness
Nodes previously used by the storage cluster are still visible as standby virtual machines
in vSphere. The newly expanded storage cluster does not use them; if you want to
reclaim VM resources, you can
the Witness Node virtual machines.
Find more information
•
NetApp Element Plug-in for vCenter Server
•
Expand NetApp HCI compute resources
After you finish NetApp HCI deployment, you can expand and configure NetApp HCI
compute resources by using NetApp Hybrid Cloud Control.
Before you begin
• Ensure that the vSphere instance of NetApp HCI is using vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing if you are
expanding a deployment with Virtual Distributed Switches.
• Ensure that none of the vCenter or vSphere instances in use with NetApp HCI have expired licenses.
• Ensure that you have free and unused IPv4 addresses on the same network segment as existing nodes
(each new node must be installed on the same network as existing nodes of its type).
• Ensure that you have the vCenter administrator account credentials ready.
• Ensure that you have performed the following actions with each new node:
◦
Installed the new node in the NetApp HCI chassis by following the
.
◦
Cabled and powered on the new node
• Ensure that each new node uses the same network topology and cabling as the existing storage or
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