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: CheckContinue reading
View ArticleVMware 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 beContinue reading
View ArticleVxRail – Identify NIC Type & Status
2 ways to identify which type of NIC cards are installed on your VxRail and check the connection status. 1 – ESXi Shell esxcli networkContinue reading
View ArticleVVD 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).Continue reading
View ArticleVVD 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 vCentersContinue reading
View ArticleVxRail 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 detailsContinue reading
View ArticleVxRAIL – 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 relevantContinue reading
View ArticleVCF 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 DomainContinue reading
View ArticleVxRAIL – 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 notContinue reading
View ArticleVCF 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)’:Continue reading
View ArticleVxRAIL – 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 VxRailContinue reading
View ArticleVxRAIL – 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 getssninfoContinue reading
View ArticleVCF on VxRail – Useful Deployment Troubleshooting Logs
VxRail – marvin.log: /var/log/vmware/marvin/tomcat/logs/marvin.log ###Useful commands### # cat marvin.log # tail -f marvin.log # tail -f marvin.log | grep ERROR # tail -n 100 marvin.logContinue reading
View ArticleVxRail – 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 theContinue reading
View ArticleVxRAIL – Lookup MODEL & PSNT
In addition to the physical tag at the front of the VxRail appliance you may also leverage the ESXi console or vCenter GUI to pullContinue reading
View ArticleVMware – 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 -NameContinue reading
View ArticleVxRAIL – 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 (whichContinue reading
View ArticleVCF on VxRail – Walkthrough
The following provides an example walkthrough covering the process of deploying VMware CloudBuilder for VxRail, bringing up VCF and deploying a VxRail Virtual Infrastructure WorkloadContinue reading
View ArticleVXRAIL 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 VxRailContinue...
View ArticleVxRAIL 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 HTMLContinue reading
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