events like power cycles and failovers.
To ensure that each VM and its resources remain on a different physical host, you can create VMware vSphere
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) anti-affinity rules. This is not automated as part of Rancher on NetApp
HCI deployment.
For instructions on how to configure DRS anti-affinity rules, see the following VMware documentation
resources:
Create VM Anti-Affinity Rules
vSphere HA and DRS Affinity Rules
Find more information
• Rancher documentation about architecture
• Kubernetes terminology for Rancher
• NetApp Element Plug-in for vCenter Server
• NetApp HCI Resources page
Enable monitoring
After you deploy Rancher on NetApp HCI, You can enable Active IQ storage monitoring
(for SolidFire all-flash storage and NetApp HCI) and NetApp HCI compute monitoring (for
NetApp HCI only) if you did not already do so during installation or upgrade.
For instructions on how to enable monitoring, see Enable Active IQ and NetApp HCI monitoring.
Find more information
• Rancher documentation about architecture
• Kubernetes terminology for Rancher
• NetApp Element Plug-in for vCenter Server
• NetApp HCI Resources page
Install Trident
Learn about how to install Trident after you install Rancher on NetApp HCI. Trident is a
storage orchestrator, which integrates with Docker and Kubernetes, as well as platforms
built on these technologies, such as Red Hat OpenShift, Rancher, and IBM Cloud Private.
The goal of Trident is to make the provisioning, connection, and consumption of storage
transparent and frictionless for the applications. Trident is a fully supported open source
project maintained by NetApp. Trident enables you to create, manage, and interact with
persistent storage volumes in the standard Kubernetes format that you are familiar with.
For more information about Trident, see the Trident documentation.
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