I assume you performed this install with the help of DellEMC? We've run into the pain in the butt problem on both of our cluster installs. IMHO this is something that DellEMC should be taking care of prior to the cluster install as part of the node validation and iDRAC setup. We use an external vCenter instance to manage all our Rail clusters. If you make sure to sync the time of the new ESXi hosts with vCenter (within 10 minutes) this problem goes away. The problem is you need to enter the syntax via the console esxi shell and you have type out the syntax string on each host. painful when you're trying to go through the Rail configuration.
Thank you for your input, and we performed the Installation on our own, as we are a DELL partner.
I solved the problem by changing the Timeworn on all Components (VxRail Nodes, External vCenter Server and VxRail Manager ) to UTC.
Setup went fine without any warning and errors and Cluster was successfully created! Afterwards we need to adjust the Times back to our original Time zone as we saw some warning on our vCenter Server.
Arkadiusz1
3 Posts
5002
0
Posted October 8th, 2018 23:00
Hi,
checked with date command on all components and evyrthing looks fine.
TimeZone is Europe/Berlin.