Chapter 2: Before You Start
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Dell EMC Ready Stack: Microsoft Hyper-V on PowerEdge 14G Servers and Unity Storage
Deployment Guide
Introduction
This guide makes assumptions about your existing infrastructure and the services that are
available on your network. Ensure that your environment meets the predeployment
requirements that are described in this chapter.
Data center requirements
The customer environment must include:
An existing Ethernet infrastructure. Ready Stack components require Dell EMC
Networking S5248F-ON switches or other Dell EMC Networking or customer-
provided switches that support 10/25 GbE and 40/100 GbE uplinks to an existing
Ethernet infrastructure. Additional components such as Dell EMC network cables
and transceivers are also needed.
Active Directory Services, Domain Name System (DNS), and Network Time
Protocol (NTP) services on the management network. While it is possible to use IP
address management services such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP), we recommend static IP assignments for all Ready Stack components.
Sufficient power and cooling to support all components. For more information, see
the relevant product documentation.
Site survey information
A site survey is an inspection of a proposed deployment site to collect information about
the initial tasks that are required for the deployment.
describes the network information that is required to deploy this Dell EMC
Ready Stack. We recommend that you collect this information before starting the
deployment. The examples that we use throughout this guide contain data that is typical of
information that is collected during a standard site survey.
Before starting deployment, read the
Dell EMC Ready Stack: Microsoft Hyper-V on
PowerEdge 14G Servers and Unity Storage Design Guide
Essential
reading
