Users Guide

Viewing overview of data centers and clusters.........................................................................................................68
Viewing hardware details for data centers and clusters...........................................................................................70
Viewing storage details for data center and clusters.................................................................................................71
Viewing additional hardware details for data center and clusters...........................................................................73
Setting up physical server blink indicator light.................................................................................................................75
Configuring System Lockdown Mode...............................................................................................................................75
10 Events, alarms, and health monitoring........................................................................................ 76
About events and alarms for hosts................................................................................................................................... 76
About events and alarms for chassis.................................................................................................................................77
Viewing chassis events..................................................................................................................................................77
Viewing chassis alarms..................................................................................................................................................77
Virtualization-related events.............................................................................................................................................. 78
Proactive HA events...........................................................................................................................................................85
Viewing alarms and events setting....................................................................................................................................86
Viewing events.....................................................................................................................................................................86
Hardware component redundancy health—Proactive HA............................................................................................86
Configuring Proactive HA for Rack and Tower servers .......................................................................................... 87
Enabling Proactive HA on clusters.............................................................................................................................. 88
Overriding severity of health update notification...................................................................................................... 88
Launching management consoles..................................................................................................................................... 89
Launching Remote Access console.............................................................................................................................89
Launching OMSA console............................................................................................................................................ 89
Launching the Chassis Management Controller or Management Module console.............................................. 89
11 About firmware updates.............................................................................................................90
Updating firmware for an MX server managed using chassis.......................................................................................90
Running firmware update wizard for non-vSAN host.....................................................................................................91
Running firmware update wizard for vSAN host............................................................................................................ 92
Running firmware update wizard for non-vSAN clusters.............................................................................................. 94
Running firmware update wizard for vSAN clusters...................................................................................................... 96
12 Chassis management.................................................................................................................98
Managing MX7000X Chassis.............................................................................................................................................98
Chassis and host management using the Unified Chassis Management IP ......................................................... 99
Adding an MX Chassis ................................................................................................................................................. 99
Viewing chassis summary details.......................................................................................................................................99
Viewing hardware inventory information for chassis.................................................................................................... 100
Viewing additional hardware configuration for chassis.................................................................................................102
Viewing associated host for chassis................................................................................................................................105
Viewing related chassis information................................................................................................................................ 105
13 Deploying hypervisor................................................................................................................107
Device discovery................................................................................................................................................................ 108
Manual discovery......................................................................................................................................................... 108
Auto discovery in OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter........................................................................108
Removing bare-metal server........................................................................................................................................111
Provisioning.......................................................................................................................................................................... 111
System profiles.................................................................................................................................................................... 111
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