
VCF On VxRail – Identify Version Via vCenter
Useful tip to identify quickly if vCenter is part of a VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail solution and whether it is used for a Management or a VI Workload Domain. […]
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Useful tip to identify quickly if vCenter is part of a VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail solution and whether it is used for a Management or a VI Workload Domain. […]
Loudmouth requires IPv6 multicast in order for VxRail Manager to perform a successful VxRail node discovery. IPv6 multicast is required only on the ‘Private Management Network’, this is an isolated […]
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. […]
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 […]
Note: this is an example for reference only please use the VxRail installation procedures & services provided by Dell. The following provides an example walkthrough covering the process of: Deploying […]
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 & […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]