Category: Dell

We wanted a VxVerify health check before updating the environment to the latest 8.0.x. The package was unpacked on the appliance and we started it the way we had done on older clusters. The message points in two directions, and both were wrong for us. “DO host queries failed” suggests that the do-host microservice or the ESXi nodes have a problem. “Rerun as root” suggests […]

The VxRail Manager VM had been rebooted and the VxRail pages in the vSphere Client no longer loaded. VxRail Manager runs its services as Kubernetes pods on the appliance itself, so the first look was at one of the pods that was obviously unhappy. Two details matter here. The container starts and finishes within the same second, and the exit code is 1. That rules […]

VxRail Manager cannot access the ESXi host with the recorded management account information. Once you’ve verified that none of the passwords have expired or been changed, the explanation is relatively simple: This environment uses lockdown mode. Lockdown Mode in vSphere is a security feature that restricts direct access to ESXi hosts and enforces centralized management through vCenter Server. Instead of allowing administrators to connect directly […]

In some Dell VxRail environments, the Physical View within the VxRail plugin in the vSphere Client fails to load. Instead of displaying the physical hardware layout of a host, the UI shows an error indicating that the physical view data cannot be loaded. When accessing the Physical View, administrators may see the above mentioned error message. This prevents visibility into the physical components of the […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Important: Do not use this procedure if you are having a VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail Environment! Before every VxRail update or upgrade, it is recommended to use the VxVerify tool, for which I have already written an article, see here: This time I had the challenge that the Service Datastores did not have the correct name and above all were renamed: A look at […]