Validate an Azure Stack HCI cluster

Prerequisites

• Network setup information of the server cluster that you want to validate, including:
  • Host or server cluster name
  • Virtual switch name
  • Network adapter names
  • Priority Flow Control (PFC) and Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) settings
• An internet connection to download the tool module in Windows PowerShell from Microsoft.

Validate networking

Install and Run the tools

1. Powershell
   1. Install-Module Validate-DCB
   2. Validate-DCB
   3. press Enter to start the tool wizard.
2. On the Welcome to the Validate-DCB configuration wizard page, select Next.
3. On the Clusters and Nodes page, type the name of the server cluster that you want to validate, select Resolve to list it on the page, and then select Next.
4. On the Adapters page:
   1. Select the vSwitch attached checkbox and type the name of the vSwitch.
   2. Under Adapter Name, type the name of each physical NIC, under Host vNIC Name, the name of each virtual NIC (vNIC), and under VLAN, the VLAN ID in use for each adapter.
   3. Expand the RDMA Type drop-down list box and select the appropriate protocol: RoCE or iWARP. Also set Jumbo Frames to the appropriate value for your network, and then select Next.
5. modify the values to match your organization’s settings for Priority, Policy Name, and Bandwidth Reservation, and then select Next.
6. On the Save and Deploy page, in the Configuration File Path box, save the configuration file using a .ps1 extension to a location where you can use it again later if needed, and then select Export to start running the Validate-DCB tool.

Validate the cluster

• $Cluster = Get-Cluster -Name ‘server-cluster1’
• Test-Cluster -InputObject $Cluster -Verbose

Validate replication for Storage Replica

• Get-WinEvent -ComputerName Server1 -ProviderName Microsoft-Windows-StorageReplica -max 20