Category: Dell VxRail

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. […]

Of course – Dell’s VxRail universe has also arrived in VMware vSphere 8. And of course it still happens that individual nodes have to be RASR’ed. However, the procedure has changed with the 15G server models. In my previous post, I described how we had to perform the RASR process via the embedded SD cards. This is different now, first, pull the correct SOLVE procedure […]

It really happens that one or the other customer loses his mystic user password of his VxRail Manager. Especially if you want to check various logs on the appliance and the whole thing should run via SSH, the mystic user is extremely important. This is because root access to the VxRail Manager via SSH is restricted. But what if the mystic password is not available […]

In my session today, I wanted expand a customers vSAN Streched Cluster with more VxRail Nodes. The Loudmouth service worked and so we were able to see and add the new node. However, the process stopped halfway with the following error message: We reviewed various logs, which I listed in another blog post: However, we have not found anything meaningful. If you want to cancel […]

A customer called me during a Dell VxRail 4 Node deployment and asked me what he could do about the following error message: *Sorry for the poor quality picture. 🙂 There are various situations where the Loudmouth service (IPv6 multicast) of the Dell VxRail cannot be used, e.g. the switches do not support this feature. In this case, the individual ESXi hosts must be added […]

There are several reasons why you have to factory reset a VxRail node, for example: Here is an easy step by step guide – how to RASR reset a Dell EMC VxRail 7.0 node. Before we start please remember that you are going to take the node back to factory reset. Do not perform a RASR reset unless it is needed. Fast Steps: Step by […]