In addition to the physical tag at the front of the VxRail appliance you may also leverage the ESXi console or vCenter GUI to pull
VxRail – NTP Configuration
VxRail Manager NTP If you wish to change the current NTP server on the VxRail Manager then use vi /etc/ntp.conf and click ‘i’ to modify the
VCF on VxRail – Useful Log File Information
The following log file info is especially useful during the implementation stage, new WLD or LCM tasks: VxRail – marvin.log, loudmouth.log: /var/log/vmware/marvin/tomcat/logs/marvin.log /var/log/vmware/loudmouth/loudmouth.log ###Useful Log
VxRAIL – Close iDrac Virtual Console Session VIA CLI
Error attempting to connect over iDRAC Virtual Console due to another session still running: SSH to the VxRAIL iDRAC IP. List open sessions: racadm getssninfo
VxRAIL – ADD DISK GROUP
In this post I will provide an example walk-through of the process for adding a new Disk Group to an existing VxRail cluster node. The VxRail
VCF ON VXRAIL – REDUCE A CLUSTER (REMOVE NODE)
In a previous post I provided an example walk-through of the process for adding a new host to an existing VCF on VxRail ‘VI Workload Domain (WLD)’:
VxRAIL – Validation Error ‘Mixing hybrid & all-flash disk groups not supported’
While performing the Validation during a VxRail install we hit the following error: Unable to complete configuration: Mixing hybrid and all flash hosts is not
VCF on VxRAIL – Expand A Cluster (Add Node)
In this post I will provide an example walk-through of the process for adding a new host to an existing VCF on VxRail ‘VI Workload Domain
VxRAIL – 4.7 Install Notes
Note: this is an example for reference only please use the VxRail installation procedures provided by Dell EMC. Prerequisites for installation include: Create all
VxRail iDRAC – Get Sysinfo Via SSH
One method of pulling useful VxRail node details such as: VxRail Model Hostname ESXi version Service tag details NIC MAC Addresses VMkernel interfaces Firmware details
VVD on VxRail – VMware vCSA 6.5->6.7 Upgrade
For each VVD Region there exists 4x vCSA appliances, this includes a load balanced pair of PSC’s and 2x vCenter’s per Region. The two vCenters
VVD on VxRail – Deploy vRealize Suite Leveraging vRSLCM (Part2 – vRA)
PART1: VVD on VxRail – Deploy vRealize Suite Leveraging vRSLCM (Part1 – vRA) Specifically posts Part1&2 in this series focus on deploying vRealize Automation (vRA).
VxRail – Identify NIC Type & Status
2 ways to identify which type of NIC cards are installed on your VxRail and check their connection status. 1 – ESXi Shell esxcli network
VMware vCSA 6.7 – Schedule Backup
A very cool feature available from within the vCSA VAMI is the capability to schedule file-level backups (v.important admin task imo). This procedure can be
VMware vCSA – Health Status
VAMI Login to the VAMI https://vcsa_ip:5480 as root and click on Summary to get an overall health status: Click on Monitor and Disks tab:
VxRail – ‘vCenter Sever Mgmt A/C Changed’
You may encounter this error due to various reasons such as password change or account lockout or if in this example for some odd reason
VMware vSAN – Viewing Disk Capacity (RVC)
There are multiple ways to skin this cat, in this example I will show how to view % disk capacity utilization leveraging the Ruby vSphere
VMWARE VVD 5.0.1 – BOM
Previous posts: VMware VVD 4.2 – BOM VMware VVD 4.3 – BOM VMware VVD 5.0 – BOM VMware Validated Designs 5.0.1 The following is a
VMware – Useful Links
A general list of VMware sites which I use on a regular basis: VMware Lifecycle Product Matrix VMware Product Interoperability Matrices VMware Compatibility Guide VMware
VVD on VxRail – Deploy vRealize Suite Leveraging vRSLCM (Part1 – vRA)
VMware VVD solutions leverage vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) tool for the automated deployment and the lifecycle management of the vRealize Suite products, namely: vRealize
