VxRail P Series Nodes

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This article is an accumulation of questions, answers, and information relating to VxRail upgrades.

This Knowledge Base article explains the steps to take when the VxRail (Virtual Extensible Infrastructure) alarm VXR01406E / MYSTIC01406E – Virtual SAN (Storage Area Network) Health Alarm ‘Advanced Virtual SAN configuration in sync’ is triggered.

Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Manager UI becomes inaccessible due to root (/dev/sda4) partition filling up.

The HTML 5 VxRail plugin was introduced in 4.7.100. Under certain circumstances, the VxRail plugin must be reinstalled. This article has the official attachments from VxRail Escalation Engineering for the VxRail 4.7.x, 7.x, and 8.x releases.

VxRail STIG 1.5 fails at host VIB installation.

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

Explore the Dell End of Service Life (EOSL) and End of Life (EOL) list for converged infrastructure, storage, and storage networking products. Access End-of-Life documents for hardware, software, and firmware release and service dates

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VxRail: Unable to deploy OVF

This KB describes how to install and manage GPU ESXi drivers on a VxRail or VCF on VxRail Node.

ESXi Health-check 'idc_hwi' verifies the Hardware Inventory (HWI) from iDRAC for known problems.

SDDC Manager LCM orchestrator can wait 80-90 min for the upgrade schedule to start or upgrade completion to finish if access to storage.googleapis.com is blocked. The delay can also happen if there is an ongoing scheduled bundle downloads.

NSXT or VC upgrade fails with error VxManager HTTP Request failed with invalid status code, error: [executeVxManagerHttpRequest] VxManager http Request /rest/vxm/v1/system failed with status code 401

Cluster expansion using initiate_stretch_cluster_vxrail_52 script fails with error Validation ended with status FAILED Validation Failed Validation is failed in task : "Validate vmnics compatibility for Adding the hosts" with ErrorCode : "HM_VXRAIL_FQDN_NOT_FOUND" message : Not able to read VxRail FQDN from the cluster domain-c9.

Out of Family upgrades with an internal vCenter fail with error "Cannot create permission for management user <VxRail Management account>".

VxRail: Unavailable to Get Cluster Deployment Type.

Failed to enable vLCM or perform vLCM upgrade due to incompatible components in virtual witness node after vCenter has been upgraded to 7.0.3.

This KB describes how to enable certificate verification for vCenter and ESXi in VxRail Manager.

Troubleshooting steps to resolve the error "503 Service Unavailable Failed to connect to endpoint" with VMware vCenter.

Application Programming Interface (API) upgrade precheck failed during the second-round of a partial upgrade to 8.0.000 due to the upgrade bundle name.

Changes in how vCenter 8.0 U3 handles HTTP requests result in failure when enabling vLCM.

ESXi fails to return the host model to VxRail manager and causes an upgrade failure.

VxRail plugin is failing to load host information due to an iDRAC issue on a node.

The rules for accounts and passwords implemented by VxRail are explained in this article. Recommendations for VxRail account naming including vCenter ESXi host, VxRail Manager, and Platform Services Controller (PSC) root accounts, general suggestions for accounts password best practices for use in Dell VxRail.

Health-check unsuccessful verification of SSL fingerprints or there are SSL thumbprint mismatches.

This verifies the network configuration contained in VxRail Manager "ifcfg" files.

The "sat_fru" health-check compares the serial number on a Satellite node with the VxRail Manager database.

Failed to Upgrade SKHynix SE5110 SSD Firmware to DZ02 when upgrading VxRail Cluster to 7.0.410, 7.0.411 & 8.0.000.

This article provides options on how to gather the recovery keys for VxRail nodes that have been initialized with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and secure boot. This is critical information to be exported safely outside the VxRail system for TPM enabled systems as these keys may be needed during service activities such as system board replacements.