VxRAIL 4.7 – Shutting down a Cluster
The following details the steps involved when performing a shutdown of a VxRail Cluster. This task can easily be performed from within the vSphere HTML client through the VxRail plugin. […]
VXRAIL 4.7 – VIEW VERSION NUMBER
Previous post: VxRail 4.5 – View version vCenter HTML Client: From the vSphere client navigate to Cluster->Configure->VxRail->System ESXi SHELL: You can check the installed VxRail code from the ESXi host SHELL […]
VCF on VxRail 3.8.1 – Walkthrough
The following provides an example walkthrough covering the process of: Deploying a VxRail Management Workload Domain cluster Deploying VMware CloudBuilder for VxRail Bring up of VCF Deploying a VxRail Virtual […]
VxRAIL – Convert vCenter Mode
Previous to 4.7.300 we used the following python script /mystic/util/vvd_vc_conversion.pyc in order to perform a conversion of vCenter and its associated PSC from internal mode (which implies control of vCenter & […]
VxRAIL – Lookup MODEL & PSNT
In addition to the physical tag at the front of the VxRail appliance you may also leverage the VxRail Manager, ESXi console or vCenter GUI to pull the PSNT and […]
VCF on VxRail – Useful Log File Information
The following log file info is especially useful during the implementation stage, VI WLD create/delete/expand or LCM related tasks. The log files for the VCF photon based appliances can be accessed either via console or SSH. VxRail /var/log/vmware/marvin/tomcat/logs/marvin.log /var/log/vmware/loudmouth/loudmouth.log VC Conversion log: cat /mystic/vxrail_vvd_vc_conversion.log cat /var/lib/vmware-marvin/runtime.properties JSON: cat /var/lib/vmware-marvin/config-journal.json | json_pp ###Useful Log analysis commands### # cat marvin.log # tail […]
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 Close the VC session with […]
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 code version is 4.7.001 and […]
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)’: VCF on VxRail – Expand […]
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 supported By examining the logs […]
VCF 3.X 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 (WLD)’. At a high level […]
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 relevant ESXi, VC and VxRAIL manager […]
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 Is via connecting directly to […]
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 are deployed to the first […]
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). Product Binaries Note: ensure ‘My […]
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 nic list If you wish […]
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 used with both embedded vCenter […]
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 the user gets removed from […]
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 Console (RVC). Begin by logging […]
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 Automation, vRealize Operations Manager vRealize […]
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