Hi @MsHpcPack @amat27 ,
I was trying to deploy the second options of your templates, but the portal gives me this error:

{"code":"DeploymentFailed","message":"At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-debug for usage details.","details":[{"code":"BadRequest","message":"{\r\n "error": {\r\n "code": "InvalidParameter",\r\n "target": "imageReference.version",\r\n "message": "The value of parameter imageReference.version is invalid."\r\n }\r\n}"}]}

My image reference version is set to 'latest'

Any ideas of what I could do?
Thanks in advance!

Log Name: Application
Source: .NET Runtime
Date: 6/21/2017 7:08:16 AM
Event ID: 1026
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: qrm-d-02-hn
Description:
Application: HpcSetupChainer.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.InvalidOperationException
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog(System.Windows.Forms.IWin32Window)
at Microsoft.Hpc.Setup.Chainer.Program.Main(System.String[])

Event Xml:



1026
2
0
0x80000000000000

2285
Application
qrm-d-02-hn



Application: HpcSetupChainer.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.InvalidOperationException
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.ShowDialog(System.Windows.Forms.IWin32Window)
at Microsoft.Hpc.Setup.Chainer.Program.Main(System.String[])

I am constantly getting the below error when trying to deploy the cluster using the ARM Template 5.
{ "id": "/subscriptions/5f48ccc9-2435-4b83-964d-61a1a487af1d/resourceGroups/Ramesh_HPC_CloudTestLab/providers/Microsoft.Resources/deployments/createCN001/operations/AE245EC76A28FEEB", "operationId": "AE245EC76A28FEEB", "properties": { "provisioningOperation": "Create", "provisioningState": "Failed", "timestamp": "2019-03-01T14:34:08.5102711Z", "duration": "PT19M4.5889653S", "trackingId": "9e7aac71-cc1e-4a81-bd10-c80f2b5e61c5", "serviceRequestId": "4dd94038-f239-495a-ad88-5e363fd5ac10", "statusCode": "Conflict", "statusMessage": { "status": "Failed", "error": { "code": "ResourceDeploymentFailure", "message": "The resource operation completed with terminal provisioning state 'Failed'.", "details": [ { "code": "VMExtensionProvisioningError", "message": "VM has reported a failure when processing extension 'ConfigHpcNode'. Error message: "DSC Configuration 'ConfigHpcNode' completed with error(s). Following are the first few: PowerShell DSC resource MSFT_xWaitForADDomain failed to execute Set-TargetResource functionality with error message: Domain 'hpc.local.cloudtestpoc' NOT found after 30 attempts. The SendConfigurationApply function did not succeed."." } ] } }, "targetResource": { "id": "/subscriptions/5f48ccc9-2435-4b83-964d-61a1a487af1d/resourceGroups/Ramesh_HPC_CloudTestLab/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/CN001/extensions/ConfigHpcNode", "resourceType": "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions", "resourceName": "CN001/ConfigHpcNode" } }}

Though the domain should be newly created, but its constantly reporting error saying that the domain cannot be found.
I didn't encounter this error last month but it appears now cluster with new AD domain using the template is failing.

I faced the deployment issue in "Template 1: High-availability cluster for Windows workloads with new Active Directory Domain" Any suggestion?

{"code":"DeploymentFailed","message":"At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-debug for usage details.","details":[{"code":"Conflict","message":"{\r\n "status": "Failed",\r\n "error": {\r\n "code": "ResourceDeploymentFailure",\r\n "message": "The resource operation completed with terminal provisioning state 'Failed'.",\r\n "details": [\r\n {\r\n "code": "VMExtensionProvisioningError",\r\n "message": "VM has reported a failure when processing extension 'setupHpcHeadNode'. Error message: \"DSC Configuration 'InstallHpcNode' completed with error(s). Following are the first few: PowerShell DSC resource MSFT_xHpcNodeInstall failed to execute Set-TargetResource functionality with error message: Failed to Install HPC HeadNodePreReq (errCode=13818): the certificate doesn't meet the requirements. The SendConfigurationApply function did not succeed.\"."\r\n }\r\n ]\r\n }\r\n}"}]}

Address of Json file: https://github.com/MsHpcPack/HPCPack2016/blob/master/newcluster-templates/single-hn-wincn-noad.json

And the address of the button:
https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.Template/uri/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FMsHpcPack%2FHPCPack2016%2Fmaster%2Fnewcluster-templates%2Fsingle-hn-wincn-noad.json

How can i create it?

Is there an HPC Pack 2016 SDK available, with code samples?

There's a Beta in Nuget, and some dox available online, but I can't actually find an SDK ...

Found some issues and suggetion in READ.me. The recommend as below.

--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -92,11 +92,11 @@ This template deploys an HPC Pack cluster with one single head node and a co

Pre-Requisites:

1. Prepare a PFX certificate

-Microsoft HPC Pack 2016 cluster requires a Personal Information Exchange (PFX) certificate to secure the communication between the HPC nodes. The certificate must meet the following requirements: 1.Have a private key capable of key exchange; 2.Key usage includes Digital Signature and Key Encipherment; 3.Enhanced key usage includes Client Authentication and Server Authentication.You can generate a self-signed certificate which meets the requirements with the following commands and export it as a PFX certificate.
+Microsoft HPC Pack 2016 cluster requires a Personal Information Exchange (PFX) certificate to secure the communication between the HPC nodes. The certificate must meet the following requirements: 1.Have a private key capable of key exchange; 2.Key usage includes Digital Signature and Key Encipherment; 3.Enhanced key usage includes Client Authentication and Server Authentication.You can generate a self-signed certificate which meets the requirements with the following commands and export it as a PFX certificate with TripleDES-SHA1 encryption.

For operating system Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016, just run the built-in New-SelfSignedCertificate command as following:

•   New-SelfSignedCertificate -Subject "CN=HPC Pack 2016 Communication" -KeySpec KeyExchange -TextExtension @("2.5.29.37={text}1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1,1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.2") -CertStoreLocation cert:\CurrentUser\My -KeyExportPolicy Exportable -NotAfter (Get-Date).AddYears(5) -NotBefore (Get-Date).AddDays(-1)
  

•   New-SelfSignedCertificate -Subject "CN=HPC Pack 2016 Communication" -KeySpec KeyExchange -KeyUsage "DataEncipherment,DigitalSignature" -TextExtension @("2.5.29.37={text}1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1,1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.2") -CertStoreLocation cert:\CurrentUser\My -KeyExportPolicy Exportable -NotAfter (Get-Date).AddYears(5) -NotBefore (Get-Date).AddDays(-1)
  

For operating system earlier than Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016, you can download the Self-signed certificate generator from Microsoft Script Center. Extract Extract its contents and run the following command.

"Extract Extract" is the typo.

Instead of creating a new VM and installing SQL server in that, is there any way where i can give the details of the Azure SQL Server servicec(SQL PAAS model), i will reduce the dependency of a server