Automatically Configured Settings

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

Virtual Machine

Default virtual machine settings: (recommended values; you can adjust these during installation in Proxmox to suit your workload or deployment needs).

  • CPU: 6
  • RAM: 6 GiB
  • Disk: 100 GiB
  • RDM physical disks
  • Create pool
  • Language Pack: English (United States) – Installs the virtual machine and sets the default language of the Windows operating system to English. However, the language settings can be changed from the Language Pack drop-down.
  • Physical disks configured as RDM
  • Sets static MAC addresses for iSCSI ports
  • Invokes Set-iSCSIPortSettings.ps1 script, which:
    • Disables DNS registration
    • Disables WINS
    • Disables net adapter bindings
    • Disables Nagle
    • Disables Ack
    • Disables adapter power saving
    • Disables SR-IOV
    • 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
  • Secure Boot is enabled by default for all deployments using Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware, enhancing platform security by ensuring only trusted boot components are loaded during system startup.

Proxmox Host

  • Creates network bridges with default settings
  • Binds physical adapters to network bridges
  • Installs SANsymphony storage plugin

DataCore SANsymphony

  • Sets backup folder for each server to C:\DataCore_Backup
  • Sets node name (IQN) for each iSCSI port to '%domain%:%server_name%-%port_name%' (for example, the target network port node name is set to 'iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:ssyVm1-target1')