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Post deployment tasks overview

01/25/2021 Contributors netapp-mwallis amgrissino Download PDF of this page

After you deploy Rancher on NetApp HCI, you should continue with post-deployment activities.

  • Ensure Rancher Support parity

  • Improve Rancher VM resiliency

  • Configure monitoring

  • Install Trident

  • Enable Trident support for user clusters

Find more information

  • Rancher documentation about architecture

  • Kubernetes terminology for Rancher

  • NetApp Element Plug-in for vCenter Server

  • NetApp HCI Resources page

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