Applies To: Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, Windows HPC Server 2008
By default, in an Active Directory ___domain, a ___domain user is authorized to add computers to the ___domain. Because of company policy, your ___domain administrator may change this default configuration and not authorize individual ___domain users to add new computers to the ___domain.
If the policy of your company does not allow you to add new computers to the ___domain, you will need to ask your ___domain administrator to pre-create the computer objects for you in Active Directory Domain Services before you deploy your Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 or Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster. This topic explains what information you need to provide to your ___domain administrator and what your ___domain administrator needs to do.
What you need to provide to your ___domain administrator
You will need to provide the following information to your ___domain administrator:
A list of all the computer names that will be used for the head node and the compute nodes in your HPC cluster. If you will be using a node naming series to generate names automatically when compute nodes are deployed, you can provide a list based on the naming series that you specify and the number of nodes that you are planning to deploy.
Note
For more information, see Specify the Node Naming Series [Help link] [HPCv3Administrator].The ___domain account that you will use to deploy your HPC cluster. You may also want to discuss with your ___domain administrator the possibility of creating a ___domain account that is specifically used for node deployment.
Note
For more information, see Provide Installation Credentials [HPCv3Administrator].
What your ___domain administrator needs to do
Your ___domain administrator will need to perform the following tasks:
Create a new computer object in the ___domain for the head node computer and for each compute node in the list that you provided.
Give permission to join the computers to the ___domain to the ___domain account that you will use to deploy your HPC cluster.
After the computer objects have been created and the installation credentials have been granted the necessary permission to join the computers to the ___domain, you can deploy your HPC cluster using any of the available deployment methods.
Important
Do not remove the Create Computer Account task (a Provisioning task) from the node template that you use to deploy compute nodes with pre-created objects in Active Directory. The task is required for other deployment actions that take place during node deployment.