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
Performing AX node recovery
If a cluster node fails, perform node operating system recovery in a systematic manner to ensure that the node is brought up
with the configuration that is consistent with other cluster nodes.
The following sections provide details about operating system recovery and post-recovery configuration that is required to bring
the node into an existing Azure Stack HCI cluster.
NOTE: To perform node recovery, ensure that the operating system is reinstalled.
Configuring RAID for operating system drives
Prerequisites
The Dell EMC PowerEdge servers offer the Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS) controller as an efficient and economical
way to separate the operating system and data on the internal storage of the server. The BOSS solution in the latest generation
of PowerEdge servers uses one or two BOSS M.2 SATA devices to provide RAID 1 capability for the operating system drive.
NOTE: All Dell EMC Solutions for Azure Stack HCI are configured with hardware RAID 1 for the operating system drives
on BOSS M.2 SATA SSD devices. The steps in this section are required only when recovering a failed cluster node. Before
creating a new RAID, the existing or failed RAID must be deleted.
About this task
This procedure describes the process of creating operating system volumes.
Steps
1. Log in to the iDRAC web interface.
2. Go to Storage > Controllers.
Figure 22. View controllers
3. Go to Configuration > Storage Configuration > Virtual Disk Configuration, and then click Create Virtual Disk.
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