Category: Dell

27. July 2025

VxRail: VxVerify – kube_diff: Kubectl Client data mismatch found

During another deployment and HealthCheck by VxVerify on my favorite HCI appliance, VxRail, I ran into the warning above. If you look at Dell’s KB 212809 article, you can only perform various test command to see if it is a issue that only support could fix, these include: With the following command, we can see how long various rke2 services have been running and pay […]

26. July 2025

VxRail: VxVerify – ntp_reach: NTP not reachable from vCenter (Bug)

Another Day and another VxVerify Challenge, this time we will talk about the above mentioned Failure. VxVerify checks the NTP Connection between vCenter and NTP Server by using SSH, if this connection cannot be established, VxVerify will display a corresponding message. However, this may be a VxVerify bug. You can check whether the NTP connection from vCenter and VxRail Manager is working. To do this, […]

25. July 2025

VxRail: VxVerify – suoders: Missing permissions in ‘/etc/sudoers’

Even though I find it very sad how the fantastic hyperconverged and VMware-integrated solution Dell VxRail is currently being handled, there are still plenty of customers who are thrilled with it. During a vSphere 8 patch from 8.0 U2 to 8.0 U3, I was confronted with the above mentioned challenge from VxVerify. Don’t know what VxVerify is? See here: This warning occurs when the configuration […]

13. December 2024

Add Dell PowerEdge Servers to VMware Aria Operations

In my previous blog post, I described how to prepare your Dell PowerEdge servers for integration with VMware Aria Operations for comprehensive dashboards and monitoring. This time we will talk about how to configure/add them to Aria Operations. First, get the Dell PowerEdge Management Pack from Dell/Broadcom and then log into your Aria Operations instance. Go to Administration -> Integrations -> Repository. There you will […]

12. December 2024

Configuring SNMPv3 on Dell iDRAC9 for VMware Aria Operations

I am currently working a lot with VMware Aria Operations and the matching Dell Management Packs that are available. One of the most interesting is the integration of PowerEdge Servers, from which you can view various alarms about: These are exactly the informations I want to integrate into Aria Operations to get/build a dedicated dashboard. In order to send these informations to Aria Operations, SNMPv3 […]

8. December 2024

Upgrade Dell OpenManage Enterprise 4.0.1 to 4.1

In this blog post I would like to describe the Upgrade Process from OME 4.0.1 to 4.1, but let’s start with some news first: Resolved Issues Platform Support Important Recommendation Limitations For customers who are still on version 3.10.x, a new deployment will be necessary, which I have described in this post: Updating from 4.x upwards is very relaxed. So let’s head over to the […]

6. December 2024

Upgrade Dell OME from 3.10.x to 4.0

The latest version of Dell OpenManage Enterprise 4.0 was released on October 30, 2023. Some customers are already using the 4.0 version and are giving generally positive feedback, especially regarding performance. That’s why I would like to describe the upgrade path from 3.10.x to 4.0 in this blog post. Before we start, I want to give you some basic upgrade paths, because you can only […]

23. October 2024

Dell VxRail / vSphere 8.0.310 Update – Advisory Report identified issues with BOSS Device

In a VxRail 8.0.300 deployment, I wanted to upgrade the appliance to the latest 8.0.310 after the initial cluster deployment, but I was confronted with a very strange phenomenon in the advisory report. Important details: Normally, all components of a VxRail node are updated with the RASR or Update image to the version provided by the Image, e.g. 8.0.300. This time, however, I was confronted […]

18. October 2024

How to kill a Dell iDRAC Session of another User

Now one or the other will ask themselves, why should I kill an iDRAC session of another user, well, if you know the admin credentials of the iDRAC anyway and the colleague has e.g. forgotten to close his iDRAC session and has gone on lunch break and you absolutely want to complete the RASR process of the VxRail – then it might make sense to […]