Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies: Managing and Monitoring the Solution Infrastructure Life Cycle Operations Guide
- Contents
- Introduction
- Day 0 Operations
- Azure onboarding for Azure Stack HCI OS
- Licensing for Azure Stack HCI for Windows Server 2016 and 2019
- Creating virtual disks
- Managing and Monitoring Azure Stack HCI Cluster using Windows Admin Center
- Installing Windows Admin Center
- Adding the HCI cluster connection
- Accessing the HCI cluster
- Viewing server details
- Viewing drive details
- Managing and monitoring volumes
- Enabling data deduplication on Storage Spaces Direct
- Monitoring and managing VMs
- Managing virtual switches
- Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Windows Admin Center
- Prerequisites for managing AX nodes
- Installing the Azure Stack HCI license (Ready Nodes only)
- Managing Azure Stack HCI clusters
- Full Stack Cluster-Aware Updating prerequisites for AX-7525 and AX-6515 nodes (offline update)
- Full Stack Cluster-Aware Updating for Azure Stack HCI clusters using the OpenManage Integration snap-in
- Updating a stand-alone node before adding it to the cluster
- Known issues
- Firmware updates using Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center for System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- Firmware and driver updates using the manual method
- Restarting a cluster node or taking a cluster node offline
- Expanding the Azure Stack HCI cluster
- Extending volumes
- Performing AX node recovery
- Operating system recovery
Table 1. Known issues (continued)
Issue Resolution/workaround
adapters, and USB NIC IPv4 addresses cannot be used
to communicate externally, which, therefore, breaks cluster
communication on those NICs.
if ($rndisAdapter)
{
Write-Log -Message 'Remote NDIS
found on the system. Cluster
communication will be disabled on this
adapter.'
# Get the network adapter and
associated cluster network
$adapterId =
[Regex]::Matches($rndisAdapter.InstanceID,
'(?<={)(.*?)(?=})').Value
$usbNICInterface = (Get-
ClusterNetworkInterface).Where({$_.adapter
Id -eq $adapterId})
$usbNICClusterNetwork =
$usbNICInterface.Network
# Disable Cluster communication
on the identified cluster network
(Get-ClusterNetwork -Name
$usbNICClusterNetwork.ToString()).Role = 0
}
While triggering full stack updates, the Tests Summary page
might appear.
As a workaround, verify whether the pre-update or post-
update scripts are part of the cluster role. If they are present,
remove the scripts from the cluster node by running the
following command in PowerShell:
Set-CauClusterRole -PreUpdateScript $null
-PostUpdateScript $null
For more information about the prerequisites required for a
cluster update, see Update Azure Stack HCI clusters.
The update status takes a long time to refresh. During full stack cluster updates, the update status shown in
the Updates page might take a long time to refresh. If this
issue occurs, it is recommended that you stay on the Updates
page and wait for the update to complete. The update status
will automatically be displayed once the update is complete.
When using CredSSP authentication to run scripts on a
remote machine, the update job might fail with an error.
This failure occurs because CredSSP has been disabled in the
gateway machine.
To resolve the issue, follow these steps:
1. From the PowerShell window, run gpedit.
2. In the Group Policy Editor window, browse to Computer
Configurations > Administrative Templates > System
> Credentials Delegation.
3. Select Allow delegating fresh credentials with NTLM-
only server authentication and enable it.
4. Run gpupdate /force in PowerShell.
Firmware updates using Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for
Microsoft System Center for System Center Virtual Machine
Manager
Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center is an appliance-based integration with the System Center suite
of products.
OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center enables full life-cycle management of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers by
using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller (LC).
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