VxRAIL – API PowerShell Module Examples
One method of consuming the available VxRail APIs is by leveraging the VxRail API PowerShell Modules Package from within your Windows OS using PowerShell. Each public API has a corresponding […]
VxRail – Lookup Service Tag/Serial Number
See also related Post: https://davidring.ie/2019/09/18/vxrail-lookup-model-psnt/ In addition to the physical tag at the front of the VxRail appliance you may also leverage PowerCLI, ESXi console or vCenter GUI to pull the ST/SN of each VxRail appliance. PowerCLI Get-Hosts -Server VxRailManager_IP -Username administrator@vsphere.local -Password PW |ft sn, hostname ESXi Console Per individual host: /opt/vxrail/tools/ipmitool fru print 17 vCenter UI With the […]
VCF On VxRail 4.3 – Flexible AVN Day-N Operations
Prior to VCF 4.3 Application Virtual Networks(AVN)s including the NSX Edge Cluster and NSX network segments were deployed and configured during bring-up by Cloud Builder. Example of this process can […]
VxRAIL – Installing API PowerShell Modules
One method of consuming the available VxRail APIs is by leveraging the VxRail API PowerShell Modules Package from within your Windows OS using PowerShell. Each public API has a corresponding PowerShell cmdlet included in the VxRail PowerShell modules starting with VxRail 4.7.300. The API User Guide can be found here: https://support.emc.com/docu91468_VxRail-Appliance-4.5.x,-4.7.x,-and-7.0.x-API-Guide.pdf?language=en_US Steps to install the VxRail API PowerShell Modules Package […]
VCF On VXRAIL 4.2 – Walkthrough (Part3: NSX-T EDGE AUTOMATION)
This is the third post in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.2. The previous posts detailed an example walkthrough covering the process of: Deploying a VxRail Management Workload Domain cluster Deploying VMware CloudBuilder for VxRail Bring-Up of VCF 4.2 Deploying a VI WLD Part 1 & Part 2 Versions used in this example are VCF 4.2 & VxRail 7.0.131. Release Notes: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/4.2/rn/vmware-cloud-foundation-on-dell-emc-vxrail-22-release-notes.html […]
VCF On VxRAIL 4.2 – Walkthrough (Part2: VI Workload Domain)
This is the second in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.2. The following detailed post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of deploying a VI Workload Domain with a […]
VCF On VxRAIL 4.2 – Walkthrough (Part1: Bring-Up)
This is the first in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.2. The following detailed post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of: Deploying a VxRail Management Workload Domain […]
VCF 4.2 On VxRAIL – ‘Validate Thumbprints’
In order to prevent the opportunity of a Man In The Middle (MiTM) attack VMware have introduced a security feature which validates the SSH RSA fingerprint and SSL thumbprint of […]
VxRail – Single vCenter Managing Multiple VxRail Clusters
‘Can a single vCenter server support/manage multiple VxRail clusters?’ Let me first explain the two methods of deploying a vCenter server to support a VxRail cluster: VxRail Managed vCenter Server […]
Dell EMC VxRail – Pre-upgrade Health Check Tool
VxVerify – Pre-upgrade Health Check Tool VxVerify is an incredibly useful tool to have at your disposal while working with VxRail. Complimentary to the native VxRail manager checks VxVerify performs […]
Dell EMC Networking – Configuring Layer-2 Mode
Switch model: S4048-ON Code Version: 9.10(0.1) 48 Ten GigabitEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)6 Forty GigabitEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s) Brief detail in relation to setting Layer-2 switchport mode on all 48x10GbE ethernet interfaces to support L2 VLAN based networking: cork-vxrail1-tor#conf tcork-vxrail1-tor(conf)#interface range tengigabitethernet 1/1-1/48cork-vxrail1-tor(conf-if-range-te-1/1-1/48)#switchportcork-vxrail1-tor(conf-if-range-te-1/1-1/48)#no shutcork-vxrail1-tor(conf-if-range-te-1/1-1/48)#exitcork-vxrail1-tor(conf)#exitcork-vxrail1-tor# To revert to non switchport mode: cork-vxrail1-tor#conf tcork-vxrail1-tor(conf)#interface range tengigabitethernet 1/1-1/48cork-vxrail1-tor(conf-if-range-te-1/1-1/48)#no switchportcork-vxrail1-tor(conf-if-range-te-1/1-1/48)#exitcork-vxrail1-tor(conf)#exitcork-vxrail1-tor#
VCF 4.x – ‘Failed To Assign Role Admin TO ESXi User’
I hit the following issue recently while creating a VCF 4.1 ‘NSX-T VI Workload Domain‘ for a VCF on VxRail solution: Referring to the VMware VCF 4.0.1 Release Notes (extract): VI workload domain creation or expansion operations fail If there is a mismatch between the letter case (upper or lower) of an ESXi host’s FQDN and the FQDN used when […]
Dell EMC Networking – Configuring MTU
Switch model: S4048-ON Code Version: 9.10(0.1) 48 Ten GigabitEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)6 Forty GigabitEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s) Brief detail in relation to setting an MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) value on all 48x10GbE ethernet interfaces to support Jumbo Frames: cork-vxrail1-tor#conf tcork-vxrail1-tor(conf)#interface range tengigabitethernet 1/1-1/48cork-vxrail1-tor(conf-if-range-te-1/1-1/48)#mtu 9216cork-vxrail1-tor(conf-if-range-te-1/1-1/48)#exitcork-vxrail1-tor(conf)#exitcork-vxrail1-tor#show interfaces tengigabitethernet 1/1 | grep MTUMTU 9216 bytes, IP MTU 9198 bytescork-vxrail1-tor# To revert to default MTU value […]
VxRail 7.0 – Useful Log File Information
The following log files can be accessed either via console or SSH to VxRail Manager. Useful VxRail Manager 7.0.010+ Log Files Note: SLES15 is the OS used for VxRail Manager. Monitor VxRail bring-up logs: dayone.log , short.term.log & firstboot.log: dayone.log – detailed information in relation to initial first run configuration. (/var/log/microservice_log/dayone.log) short.term.log – micro services related information. (/var/log/microservice_log/short.term.log) firstboot.log – detailed information […]
VxRail 7.0 – Install Notes
For VxRail 4.7 please see earlier post: VxRail 4.7 – Install Notes Note: this is an example for reference only please use the VxRail installation procedures provided by Dell EMC. […]
VxRail – SSH SERVER ‘2048 RSA Public Key’
VxRail code release 4.7.410 and above uses a 2048-bit RSA Public Key for the SSH Server on VxRail Manager . This replaces the 1024-bit DSA Public Key previously used. Image […]
VMware ESXi – Monitoring Tasks VIA CLI
The following post details how to view task information via CLI on an ESXi host. Task details such as: Snapshot operations, for example create/delete/consolidate Clone operations As can be seen […]
iDrac – UEFI0315 POST ERROR
UEFI0315: Unable to process an iDRAC request to configure Secure Boot keys because of a communication error between BIOS and iDRAC. Encountered the above error on a VxRail 13G host […]
VCF 4.1 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 4.1 on VxRail ‘VI Workload Domain (WLD)’: https://davidring.ie/2020/12/16/vcf-4-1-on-vxrail-expand-a-cluster-add-node/ In this post I will provide an example walk-through of the process for removing a host from a VCF 4.1 on VxRail ‘VI Workload Domain (WLD)’. There are various reasons you may wish to perform this task […]
VCF 4.1 ON VXRAIL – EXPAND A CLUSTER (ADD NODE)
In this post I will provide an example walk-through of the process for adding a new VxRail node to an existing VCF on VxRail ‘VI Workload Domain (WLD)’. At a high level there are […]
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