Post-Deployment Tasks

  Hypervisor: 

After you finish the deployment, it exists some tasks that you must do manually, depending on your hypervisor type.


Licensing

- The definitive System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) license must be added.


Networking

- Configure JumboPacket with MTU to 9000 on the Switch on Storage ports.

- Configure Distributed Switch with MTU to 9000.

- Configure Storage VMkernel with MTU to 9000 on all cluster nodes.

- The deployment has been done with the infrastructure and storage ports in access mode. If you want to deploy resources over a different VLAN, it would be necessary to change the configuration of the switch ports to trunk mode and reconfigure the Hyper-V vSwitches with the correct id.


Windows Updates

At the finish, we recommend installing Windows Updates in all virtual and physical machines according to the customer's policy. Once deployment finished, we strongly recommend using Windows Update Server (WSUS) instead of scheduled tasks

There is a scheduled task that runs every day at 11:30 PM and installs them without restarting.

To do this, you must follow the recommended Microsoft procedures, taking into account that Storage Spaces Direct (Microsoft technology) could imply changes in the way it is updated.

To remove scheduled tasks in all machines, you can follow this article.


Drivers and Firmware

We strongly recommend updating drivers and firmware of components for the appliances.

To do this, you must follow the recommended procedures for the manufacturer, taking into account that Storage Spaces Direct (Microsoft technology) could imply changes in the way it is updated.


General Review

When the deployment has finished, it is necessary to check the status of all services:

  • In cluster Hyper-V and Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) check if:
    • The nodes are up
    • The witness cluster is up 
    • All VM and Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) Role are up
  • In cluster System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) check if:
    • The SCVMM service is up
    • The nodes (or node in PoC Deployments) are up
  • Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop Test Site is passed without errors
  • Flexxible|Suite shown the jobs Completed without errors


SMTP Server Configuration

In the installation phase, a temporary SMTP server is configured, but at the finish, it's necessary to configure the definitive customer SMTP server to make sure they are sent alerts correctly.

Follow the steps below to configure it:

  • From Suite, select Settings in Monitoring menu, and type SMTP to filter the settings to modify.

  • Once the SMTP settings have been modified, select Service status in WatchDog menu, and click in Test mail config.

  • Type address to send a test email by clicking on the button Send mail.