VxRail E660F

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

A guide for Dell customers on how to change or reset the passwords for VxRail Service VMs.

Step-by-step guide using vCenter to identify failed disk, remove disk or disk group, physically replace the faulted disk, mark the new disk as local, and add a new disk or disk group.

VxRail upgrade failed from 7.0.410 to 8.0.201 with error "Internal Server Error."

Event code: VXR500PCI1321 This event code indicates "A high-severity issue is detected in a component of the bus <bus ID>, device 0, function

Event code: VXR500PCI1319 This event code indicates "A high-severity issue is detected in the SSD bay <bay id>, Slot <slot id>."

Event code: VXR500PST0138 This event code indicates "SuperIO failed."

VxVerify health-check 'ntp_reach' finds non-reach NTP servers which are configured at vCenter Guest OS level, which could cause vCenter upgrades to fail.

Event code: VXR500PST0192 This event code indicates "Shut-down test failed."

Event code: VXR500PST0144 This event code indicates "Unable to load required BIOS files."

Event code: VXR500PCI1300 This event code indicates "A front panel diagnostic interrupt was detected."

Event code: VXR500PCI5008 This event code indicates "The Chassis Management Controller (CMC) is unable to communicate with the PCIe switch board."

Event code: VXR500PDR1024 This event code indicates "Drive mismatch detected for drive <number> in disk drive bay <bay>."

Event code: VXR500PST0196 This event code indicates "Incorrect memory configuration."

Event code: VXR500PDR3 This event code indicates "<PD Name> is not functioning correctly."

Event code: VXR500PDR117 This event code indicates "The <PCIe solid state device name> has turned off because the critical temperature threshold is exceeded."

This article details how to check the system BIOS for enabled or disabled physical ports and enabled or disabled ports within the ESXi hypervisor.

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

This article describes how to fix the inability to create Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN) disk groups. It also provides for issues adding disks to existing ones when there are abnormal conditions showing on the host. The specific conditions addressed in this article include "Ineligible" drives that should be available. You may also see an incorrect number of total drives on the host and/or additional disk groups that should not be there.

This KB article discusses how to enable TRIM/UNMAP on all ESXi hosts on the vSAN cluster to reclaim space on the vSAN datastore.

Event code: VXR500PST0128 This event code indicates "No memory is detected."

The Physical view is not working, or nodes are missing from the host page due to incorrect vmk layout.

Node health-check fails for test dcism. Test 'dcism' is a health-check that runs on each VxRail node to attempt to validate the status of the dcism service.

Unable to place any host in the cluster into maintenance mode or vMotion due to certificate issues.

The 'df_service' test checks the local Service datastore available capacity on each node.

Event code: VXR500PDR215 This event code indicates "Copyback task to <physical disk name> has failed."

Event code: VXR500PCI1312 This event code indicates "An EISA fail-safe time-out was detected."

Event code: VXR500NIC508 This event code indicates "NIC teaming info is not currently available."

Event code: VXR500PST0208 This event code indicates "System BIOS has halted."