VxRail Software

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Step-by-step guidance to replace with customer certificates for Dell VxRail environments. vSphere provides security by using certificates to encrypt communications, authenticate services, and sign tokens. (Customer Correctable)

When an external vCenter manages multiple VxRail clusters, the VxRail property collector service may cause excessive memory to be used in the vCenter VPXD service.

These tests check the disk free-space (df) on the VxRM Virtual Machine partition: 'df_store2'

Upgrade fails during firmware staging process with error: Schedule firmware using VxRail Platform Service failed with timeout

VxRail: Node addition failing with "vmnicX on host x cannot communicate with other hosts on VLAN X"

On August 20, 2021, Dell Technologies announced the Next-Generation consolidated connectivity solution availability for Secure Connect Gateway 5.0 (servers, networking, data storage, data protection, hyperconverged and converged systems). It provides customers with a single solution for managing their entire Dell environment in the data center.

Host profiles are not supported on VxRail or VCF on VxRail. There are currently no plans to support this in the future.

This article summarizes common failure reasons during the sequential reboot precheck step and reboot step, and provides suggested actions to address the issues.

The DNS servers on VxRail Manager, ESXi hosts, and internal vCenter must be the same, otherwise LCM to 7.0.410 or above will fail.

How to resolve "Failure detected on Internal Dual SD Module SD1"

A BEZL0003 Alert may be triggered from VxRail models which do not have the Telco-Edge-Bezel for which the alert is designed.

Support iDRAC events monitor: CERT331

Event VXR128016 is reported when the node management account password expires in 14 days.

Support iDRAC events monitor: THRM0018

This article explains why Dell initiates automated secure connect-in sessions on VxRail systems connected through Secure Connect Gateway (SCG).

This procedure explains how to re-create a host management account.

Upgrade cannot continue due to management accounts having the same username.

This article explains Dell guidelines on company administrator assignment.

This article explains how to assign an Initial Company Administrator.

This article explains how to promote Company Administrators.

The internet update option from the VxRail plugin is disabled due to the support account not being configured.

The Action Button is unavailable to click when performing Advisor Report Internet Updates.

This article explains where to find firmware files on the VxRail Manager for use after a node re-imaging operation or a component replacement on a node. The firmware in the recovery bundle contains the correct versions for the running cluster code.

Dell VxRail Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail v1.1.001.

vCLS Virtual machines (VM) will not deploy in a cluster, even after enabling and disabling retreat mode.

VxVerify upgrade precheck fails with "Failure to access all the necessary Python packages" and ModuleNotFoundError.

Event code VXR034011 is present on VxRail Manager.

The intent of this KB is to provide the proper course of action to take in the event that the notified mystic code takes place.

Event VXR108100 is reported when the VxRail cluster is still at a version lower than 8.0.330.