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The first steps of this tutorial are from one of my other blog posts (see link).

We start at step 2 of this post.

2. Deploy Azure Stack HCI Single Node Cluster using PowerShell

Task 1 - Deploy VMs

1. Replace content of LabConfig.ps1 with following code. You can double-click the file to open it in Notepad.

# DC
$LabConfig=@{ DomainAdminName='LabAdmin'; AdminPassword='P@$$w0rd!'; Prefix = 'MSLab-' ; DCEdition='4'; Internet=$true ; AdditionalNetworksConfig=@(); VMs=@()}

# HCI Nodes (pre-domain joined)
1 | ForEach-Object {$VMNames="AzSHCI" ; $LABConfig.VMs += @{ VMName = "$VMNames$_" ; Configuration = 'S2D' ; ParentVHD = 'AzSHCI21H2_G2.vhdx' ; HDDNumber = 12; HDDSize= 4TB ; MemoryStartupBytes= 64GB; MGMTNICs=4 ; NestedVirt=$true}} 

# Windows Admin Center gateway
$LabConfig.VMs += @{ VMName = 'WACGW' ; ParentVHD = 'Win2022Core_G2.vhdx' ; MGMTNICs=1 }

2. Run the modified script in an elevated shell.

.\Deploy.ps1

Expected result:

Task 2 - Setting Up the Cluster

Log into the Node VM.

Username: corp\LabAdmin Password: P@$$word!

Exit to the PowerShell using

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All -NoRestart -Verbose

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Management-PowerShell -All -NoRestart -Verbose

Install-WindowsFeature -ComputerName "AzSHCI1" -Name "BitLocker", "Data-Center-Bridging", "Failover-Clustering", "FS-FileServer", "FS-Data-Deduplication", "Hyper-V", "Hyper-V-PowerShell", "RSAT-AD-Powershell", "RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell", "NetworkATC", "Storage-Replica" -IncludeAllSubFeature -IncludeManagementTools

New-Cluster -Name AzSHCICl -Node AzSHCI1 -NOSTORAGE

Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect

# If you have a problem with the bus type
(Get-Cluster).S2DBusTypes=4294967295
# https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2296087-conceptualizing-windows-server-storage-spaces-or-s2d