Category: Dell VxRail

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 […]