VCF On VxRail – SOS Utility Health Check
The SDDC Manager inbuilt Python tool referred to as Supportability and Serviceability utility (SOS) is a very useful method for performing system checks on your VCF environment and help to […]
VCF On VxRAIL 3.9 – Deploying vRealize Suite (Part1 – vRSLCM)
VCF Version: 3.9.0 Note: ensure ‘My VMware’ creds are entered successfully in the SDDC Manager repository settings and the list of available products are being displayed in the SDDC Manager […]
VCF SDDC Manager – Reset ‘vcf’ User A/C Due To Failed Login Attemtps
For example; due to repeated failed login attempts via SSH/SCP the SDDC Manager ‘vcf’ user account may get locked out. The following provides steps on how to reset the account […]
VMware Cloud Foundation – 3.8.1 -> 3.9 Upgrade
Example VCF 3.8.1 -> 3.9 upgrade In order to check the availability of Update/Patches from within the SDDC manager console navigate to Inventory->WLD->Update/Patches. In this example we see that VCF 3.9.0.0 update […]
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. […]
VCF 3.9 – “Got bad CSRF token; invalid CSRF token”
The following is a known VCF 3.9 error that may appear on the SDDC Manager GUI: “Got bad CSRF token; invalid CSRF token” As per the VCF 3.9 Release Notes: […]
VxRail 4.7 – IPV6 Node Discovery Test
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 […]
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 & […]
VMware – Install PowerCLI on Offline Machine
In most cases a machines are connected to the internet which allows a PowerCLI user download the modules directly from the web using: Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI In the event the […]
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 […]
