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Enable Trident support for user clusters
If your NetApp HCI environment does not have a route between the management and
storage networks, and you deploy user clusters that need Trident support, you need to
further configure your user cluster networks after installing Trident. For each user cluster,
you need to enable communication between the management and storage networks. You
can do this by modifying the networking configuration for each node in the user cluster.
About this task
Follow these general steps to modify the networking configuration for each node in the user cluster. These
steps assume that you created the user cluster with the default node template that is installed with Rancher on
NetApp HCI.
You can make these changes as part of a custom node template to use for future user
clusters.
Steps
1. Deploy a user cluster with existing default template.
2. Connect the storage network to the user cluster.
a. Open the VMware vSphere web client for the connected vCenter instance.
b. In the Hosts and Clusters inventory tree, select a node in the newly deployed user cluster.
c. Edit the node's settings.
d. In the settings dialog, add a new network adapter.
e. In
the
New
HCI_Internal_Storage_Data_Network.
f. Expand the network adapter section and record the MAC address for the new network adapter.
g. Click OK.
3. In Rancher, download the SSH private key file for each node in the user cluster.
4. Connect using SSH to a node in the user cluster, using the private key file that you have downloaded for
that node:
ssh -i <private key filename> <ip address>
5. As the superuser, edit and save the
ens224
section, similar to the following example. Replace
recorded earlier:
Network
drop
down
/etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml
list,
browse
for
<MAC address>
a
network
and
file so that it includes the
with the MAC address you
select
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