VxRail Software

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This article provides the methods to view power supply unit (PSU) status through VxRail Manager, vCenter, or iDRAC and through Command-Line Interface (CLI) to determine if your Dell VxRail PSU needs replacement.

This article shows how to reset the root password of the iDRAC on a VxRail system.

This KB article describes Event VXR034020 Remote connectivity lost.

This article explains how to add a new node failed due to the new host certificate has expired.

Robotic Process Automation explains adding eNAS licensing certificates to VMAX3 and VMAX All Flash, Wi‑Fi issues, and mismatched Reference IDs for hosts.

Dell VxRail: Health check fails for test 'sig_hash' for weak signatures used on vCenter, vCenter root store, and ESXi certificates.

Health-check returns an event indicating that VxVerify found the SFS tags on the cluster.

The Health-check returns an event indicating that VxVerify found a configuration setting issue for the Platform Services Controller (PSC).

VxRail does not support the route based on IP hash load-balancing policy, day2 node add validation fails if the management port group chooses that policy.

In a vLCM enabled VCF on VxRail environment, adding a VUM cluster (vLCM feature disabled) may result in the loss of certain permissions from the HCIA role in vCenter, and cause upgrade or node add operation fails.

Health-check returns a value indicating an issue regarding the 'tag_clust' for VxRail version 7.0.010+.

Health check returns an event indicting that the 'operation_status' database table is too large, which causes problems when upgrading to a VxRail 7.x release.

Seagate Skybolt and SkyboltServoBP drive fails with medium format corrupted errors.

vSAN (Virtual SAN) requires disk‑group layout conversion from 32‑bit to 64‑bit to use large drives (≥16 TB for space‑efficiency‑disabled, ≥4 TB for enabled). Health warning shows 32‑bit; fix by evacuating data and recreating the group. Without it, the large drive is ignored. Upgrading to vSphere 19 and recreating gave no 64‑bit option; capacity remains 64 GB with 20 TB disks, so the 16 TB limit persists.

Dell VxRail remediation is available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

This article outlines the procedure for managing customer Service Requests (SR) to address security vulnerabilities (VMSA) in VxRail or VCF On VxRail environments through manual updating.

This document describes the objects and equipment used by Customer Engineers (CEs) when on-site. Please check and prepare in advance.

Host running ESXi 8 with VSAN ESA fails with Purple Diagnostic Screen ("purple screen of death") PSOD.

All upgrade bundles to 7.0.350, 7.0.370, 7.0.371, 7.0.372 have been hidden from Dell support site

Enter/exit Maintenance Mode and VxRail shutdown/startup with Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode deployed

Dell VxRail Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) on VxRail.

Due to a known VMware issue in the virtual storage area network (vSAN) Witness, the internal OEM license of the vSAN Witness becomes unavailable. This leaves the Virtual Witness host in an eval/expired licensing state. This affects VxRail stretched clusters upgrading from 4.5.xxx and 4.7.xxx to 7.0.xxx, no known VMware and VxRail release contains a fix.

VxRail plugin is missing after vCenter certificate and password is rotated from SDDC manager.

This article provides a solution to the "vDS Port Not Found" error that may occur during stretched cluster upgrade using vLCM.

This KB has detailed steps on how to switch from CloudLink to a Native Key Provider.

This article instructs users how to update the VMware Tools version in the ESXi host using the Broadcom offline packet. Do not use this article for vLCM enabled clusters. Check notes for more information.

Upgrade from 4.5.x/4.7.x to 7.0.450/7.0.451 or 8.0.100 failed at VxRail Manager migration step with "Error in migration, removed new vxm: lockbox execute_remote_lockbox_script error in migration".

Performing node expansion in the middle of Lifecycle Management (LCM) failed with a FileNotFoundException error message.

This KB article describes a situation when a node upgrade fails with a "No space left on device" error message.