Automatically Configured Settings

The DataCore Installation Manager for vSphere installation DataCore Installation Manager for vSphere automatically configures the following items:

  • Default virtual machine settings (Please configure the resources according to your workload.):
    • CPU 4
    • RAM 12GB
    • Disk 100GB
    • RDM physical disks
    • Create pool
  • Language Pack: English (United States)

    • Installs the virtual machine and sets the default language of the Windows operating system as English. However, the language settings can be changed from the language drop-down.

  • Sets static MAC addresses for iSCSI ports
  • Sets latency sensitivity to High
  • Memory reservation is locked to max
  • Memory reservation is equal to RAM size
  • CPU hot add is disabled
  • Memory hot add is disabled
  • Memory allocation shares level is set to High
  • Cores per socket is set to 1
  • CPU is set to min(virtual machine cores, host physical cores/2) * Host CPU clock
  • CPU allocation shares level is set to High
  • Time is synced with the host
  • Auto start is enabled
  • Invokes Set-iSCSIPortSettings.ps1 script which:
    • Disables DNS registration
    • Disables WINs
    • Disables net adapter bindings
    • Disables Nagle
    • Disables Delayed Ack
    • Disables adapter power saving
    • Disables SRIOV
    • Enables RSC
    • Enables RSS
    • Creates transport filter "DatacenterCustom" to specify optimal TCP settings for all iSCSI TCP connections
  • Pins iSCSI Initiator IQN
  • Power plan is set to High Performance
  • Windows Updates are enabled
  • Windows Firewall is enabled
  • Management adapter configured as follows:
    • Set DNS domain (if DNS suffix is specified)
    • Set dynamic DNS registration to true
  • Add entries for SAN virtual machines to hosts file (for static IPs)
  • Add DataCore certificate to LocalMachine\TrustedPublisher
  • Networking
    • Add software iSCSI adapter
    • Disable DelayedAck on the iSCSI adapter
    • Create virtual switches with default settings
    • Add physical adapters to virtual switches
    • Create port groups and bind to switches
    • For target networks, create vmkernal adapters and add to port groups
  • Advanced
    • Set maximum I/O block size to 512
    • Add SATP rule for DataCore virtual disks: ESXicli storage nmp satp rule add -V DataCore -M "Virtual Disk" -s VMW_SATP_ALUA -c tpgs_on -P VMW_PSP_RR -O "iops=10"
    • Disable ATS heartbeat
    • Set power performance policy to High
    • Disable pNIC interrupt moderation for iSCSI adapters: InterrupThrottleRate=0
  • Time synchronization
    • Add server pool.ntp.org to NTP servers list
    • Set ntpd service policy to automatic
    • Enable firewall ruleset for ntpd service
  • Set backup folder for each server to C:\DataCore_Backup
  • Set mirror recovery speed to max
  • HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\AUOptions 1
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AcceptTrustedPublisherCerts 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\DisableWindowsUpdateAccess 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\DoNotConnectToWindowsUpdateInternetLocation 1
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\ElevateNonAdmins 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\TargetGroupEnabled 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\AlwaysAutoRebootAtScheduledTime 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\AUPowerManagement 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\AUPowerManagement 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\DetectionFrequencyEnabled 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\EnableFeaturedSoftware 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\IncludeRecommendedUpdates 1
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\NoAUShutdownOption 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers 1
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers 1
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\RebootRelaunchTimeoutEnabled 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\RebootWarningTimeoutEnabled 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\RescheduleWaitTimeEnabled 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\ScheduleInstallDay 0
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\ScheduleInstallTime 3
  • HKLM:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU\UseWUServer 0
  • HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{A509B1A7-37EF-4b3f-8CFC-4F3A74704073}\IsInstalled 0
  • HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\fDenyTSConnections 0
  • HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\LogEvent 1
  • HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\AutoReboot 1
  • HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\CrashDumpEnabled 2
  • HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\Overwrite 1
  • HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\DumpFile C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP
  • HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PagingFiles c:\pagefile.sys 16384 16384