Setting Up Dns For Smartconnect - Dell PowerEdge R730xd Deployment Manual

4. Once the folder has been created, click the SMB folder.
5. Once again create a directory and assign the name, "Engineering," user, group, and permissions
settings.
6. When both folders have been created, navigate to the Protocols > Windows Sharing (SMB).
7. Select Create an SMB Share.
8. Assign a name, "Engineering SMB," use the Browse button to navigate to the Engineering folder
that was created previously.
9. Select the member's window and assign access permissions.
10. All other selections were left at the default values.
11. Click Create Share.
9.4

Setting up DNS for SmartConnect

One of the features of the OneFS file system is SmartConnect. SmartConnect allows the workload to be
dynamically reassigned to other nodes in the cluster in the event of a node failure. SmartConnect is a
feature that must be configured. There is also a DNS dependency for SmartConnect to function properly.
Configuring DNS host A records and Delegation zones is necessary. Once this is done, SmartConnect will
assign the workload to each node using the round robin method. Using the FQDN that was configured
previously for the SmartConnect zones is required. This section will cover the completion of the
SmartConnect configuration.
1. Login to the DNS server.
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