Category: Dell VxRail

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 […]

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 […]

I recently had a VxRail deployment with an external vCenter, which drove me crazy. 🙂 In the normal case, if you select “Join existing vCenter Server” under Global Settings (Step 7), the next Cluster Configuration steps should adapt. This means that under Virtual Network Settings (Step 12), under vCenter Server Network, you only have to choose between Static or Ephemeral Binding. However, I had the […]

VxVerify is designed to be used after initial VxRail deployments and before upgrades, to proactively identify issues that could lead to complications or failures. I always recommend checking the cluster with VxVerify before making any further adjustments, such as customising the cluster or upgrading to vSphere/VxRail 8 for example. This tool unpacks so-called minions during execution, which are running on each ESXi in the cluster. […]