VxRail Software

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This dial-home event is generated when the status of one of the SSD or hard drives within a VxRail node changes. This may indicate a failed or failing drive and may require replacement.

Host is unable to load the physical view due to a blank space in the node.node table.

How to renew ESXi host certificate or refresh CA Certificates using vSphere client if VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) assigns certificates to the ESXi hosts.

This article describes how to deal with VxRail event VXR124014.

Special characters in VxRail Manager VM name cause VxRail Manager upgrade failure

PKCS#8 format private key is not supported by VxRail Manager certificate import UI or API.

VxRail plug-in not showing system, update, and hosts information

Timing issue causes LCM to show a false positive error status.

Enable vLCM fails due to compliance issue for MRVL-QLogic-FC, some nodes have the driver type as "VIB."

In VxRail Lifecycle Management (LCM) upgrade, reports missing TLS CA bundle causing verification failure and vxm‑agent start error, due to broken Docker network blocking deployment.

Lifecycle Manager (LCM) from 7.0.x to 7.0.350 or above, if VxRail supplied vCenter upgrade failed, need manual steps to cancel vCenter upgrade before retry LCM.

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

vCenter 8.0 is not compatible with the VxRail plug-in in VxRail 7.0.405 and earlier.

Cluster upgrade failed due to host platform service error while scheduling a firmware update on a Dell 13G node.

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.

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

This article explains when a satellite node upgrade failed with the error incompatible with the current version. This happens due to the satellite node version not being defined in the VxRail managers supported node add version list.

Instructions for configuring BIOS and ESXi settings to activate execInstalledOnly enforcement.

When disk size differences exceed 5% cross all nodes in a VxRail cluster, the system will generate a warning message to alert the customer of the variance. This warning serves as a notification to the customer that the disk size differences may affect the cluster's performance or balance, and it allows the customer to make informed decisions about their storage configuration.

Connectivity lost due to broken Embedded Service Enabler (ESE) dependency files, and the dell-ese pod fails to start on the VxRail Manager.

LCM target vCenter version is not compatible with current Tanzu version, causing vCenter upgrade failure.

How to apply vCenter Express Patches to VxRail-managed vCenter servers using the package downloaded from Broadcom's portal.

When upgrading VxRail VCF from version 9.0 to 9.0.x, the process may fail at the cluster remediation stage in the node upgrader, retrying the process may not resolve the issue. You must manually remediate the cluster.

This article explains why fails to install vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB) on an ESXi host and how to handle it.

This article describes how to prepare vCenter server trusted root CA certificates before Day1 bring-up.

Enabling vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) validation fails if a depot is invalid.

A thin LUN near 100% from an external storage array causes the hostd service to become unresponsive.

Node vSAN static route missing during Layer 3 node expansion

VxRail Physical View had no nodes populated after an upgrade to version 7.0.010 or later.