Dell Azure Stack HCI Fully Converged Network Configuration

All steps below are run using PowerShell. Cluster management and storage network traffic use the same Switch Embedded Team (SET). The three networks run across three separate virtual adapters. Configuration of the SET switch, VLANs, and virtual adapters is included below.

Do not wrap the PowerShell commands below, or they will fail after copying large sections of the script into the PowerShell window. The configuration script below must be run on all cluster nodes.

The image below is a hardware diagram of a configured Azure Stack HCI converged network using a SET for Management and Storage network communication:


Figure 1: Diagram of a fully converged network in Azure Stack HCI

The script steps below must be run at an administrative PowerShell prompt:
 

$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
#region Variables for the scenario
# You must specify 2 or 4 network adapter port names
$netAdapterName = @('SLOT 4 PORT 1','SLOT 4 PORT 2')
$switchName = 'S2DSwitch'

# Management Adapter Parameters
$managementAdapterName = 'Management'

# VLAN ID for host management traffic; if no VLAN is preferred set this to 0
$managementVlanId = 102

# Management Gateway address
$managementGateway = '10.0.0.1'

# DNS server address
$managementDns = '10.0.0.19'

# Set this to a string 'DHCP' for a dynamic IP address
$managementIPAddress = '10.0.0.51'

# Management address prefix (24 translates to subnet mask 255.255.255.0)
$managementAddressPrefix = 24

# Storage Adapter Parameters
$storageAdapterPrefix = 'Storage'

# You must specify 1 or 2 or 4 VLANIDs
# You can use 0 as the value if you don't want to use VLANs for storage traffic
$storageVlanId = @(103,104)

# You must specify 2 or 4 IP Addresses
# DHCP as a value is accepted if you want dynamically assigned IP addresses
$storageIPAddress = @('171.16.101.51','172.16.102.51')

# You can specify 1 or 2 or 4 prefix length values
$StorageAddressPrefix = @(24)

#endregion

## Create a VM switch for management and Storage traffic
$null = New-VMSwitch -Name $switchName -AllowManagementOS 0 -NetAdapterName $netAdapterName -Verbose

## Add VM Network Adapters and configure VLANs and IP addresses as needed
### Management Adapter
$managementAdapter = Add-VMNetworkAdapter -SwitchName $SwitchName -ManagementOS -Passthru -Name $managementAdapterName -Verbose

if ($managementVlanId -and ($managementVlanId -ne 0))
{
Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -VMNetworkAdapter $managementAdapter -Access -VlanId $managementVlanId -Verbose
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
}
if ($ManagementIPAddress -ne 'DHCP')
{
$null = New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet ($managementAdapterName)" -IPAddress $managementIPAddress -DefaultGateway $managementGateway -PrefixLength $managementAddressPrefix -Verbose
Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet ($managementAdapterName)" -ServerAddresses $managementDns -Verbose
}

### Storage Adapters
for ($i = 0; $i -lt $netAdapterName.Count; $i++)
{
$storageAdapterName = "${storageAdapterPrefix}$($i+1)"
# if there is a single VLAN for storage use the first and only element
if ($storageVlanId.Count -eq 1)
{
$storageVlan = $storageVlanId[0]
}
else
{
# else use the right index to get the VLAN ID
$storageVlan = $storageVlanId[$i]
}

# Check if only one prefix is provided
if ($StorageAddressPrefix.Count -eq 1)
{
$StoragePrefix = $StorageAddressPrefix[0]
}
else
{
# if more than one, use the right index to get the address prefix
$StoragePrefix = $StorageAddressPrefix[$i]
}
$storageAdapter = Add-VMNetworkAdapter -SwitchName $SwitchName -ManagementOS -Passthru -Name $storageAdapterName -Verbose

 if ($storageVlan -and ($storageVlan -ne 0))
{
# Set VM Network adapter VLAN only if the VLAN ID specified is other than 0
Set-VMNetworkAdapterVlan -VMNetworkAdapter $storageAdapter -Access -VlanId $storageVlan -Verbose
Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
}
if ($StorageIPAddress[$i] -ne 'DHCP')
{
$null = New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet ($storageAdapterName)" -IPAddress $StorageIPAddress[$i] -PrefixLength $StoragePrefix -Verbose
}
## Set VMnetwork adapter to Physical adapter mapping
Set-VMNetworkAdapterTeamMapping -VMNetworkAdapterName $storageAdapterName -ManagementOS -PhysicalNetAdapterName $netAdapterName[$i]
}