NetApp HCI, Manual

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Your vCenter credentials are collected based on your NetApp Deployment Engine installation.
3. Enter vCenter Resources information. Some fields are described next.
◦ Datacenter : Select a datacenter. After you select the datacenter, all other fields are prepopulated,
although you can change them.
◦ Datastore : Select a datastore on the NetApp HCI storage nodes. This datastore should be resilient and
accessible to all of the VMware hosts. Do not select a local datastore that is accessible to only one of
the hosts.
◦ Management network : This should be accessible from the management stations and from the virtual
machine network where the user clusters will be hosted.
4. Enter Deployment Settings information:
◦ DNS Servers : Optional. If you use load balancing, enter the internal DNS server information.
◦ Rancher Server FQDN : To ensure that the Rancher Server remains available during node failures,
provide a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) that your DNS server can resolve to any of the IP
addresses assigned to the Rancher Server cluster’s nodes. This FQDN with the "https" prefix becomes
the Rancher URL that you will use to access your Rancher implementation.
If no domain name is provided, wildcard DNS will be used instead and you will be able to access the
Rancher Server using one of the URLs presented after the deployment completes.
5. Enter Advanced Settings information:
◦ Assign Static IP Addresses : If you enable static IP addressing, provide starting IP addresses for
three IPv4 addresses in sequence, one for each management cluster virtual machine. Rancher on
NetApp HCI deploys three management cluster virtual machines.
◦ Configure Proxy Server :
6. Review and select the checkbox for the Rancher End User License Agreement.
7. Review and select the checkbox to acknowledge information about Rancher software.