Deployment Guide

4 Dell EMC XC Xpress Hyper-Converged Appliance Deployment Guide for ESXi | A02
7 Managing your cluster using Prism ............................................................................................................................ 27
7.1 Adding your Xpress cluster to vCenter ............................................................................................................. 28
7.2 Running virtual machines on the default container .......................................................................................... 28
7.3 Prism monitoring software ................................................................................................................................ 29
8 Getting Help ................................................................................................................................................................ 30
8.1 Contacting Dell ................................................................................................................................................. 30
8.2 Locating Service Tag ........................................................................................................................................ 30
8.3 Quick Resource Locator ................................................................................................................................... 31
8.4 Documentation .................................................................................................................................................. 31
A Installation prerequisites ............................................................................................................................................. 32
A.1 ESXi installation requirements .......................................................................................................................... 32
A.2 About Network Time Protocol (NTP) ................................................................................................................ 32
A.2.1 Configuring NTP servers .................................................................................................................................. 32
A.3 Domain Name Server (DNS) requirements ...................................................................................................... 33
A.4 Networking recommendations .......................................................................................................................... 33
A.4.1 Management network ....................................................................................................................................... 34
A.4.2 Production network ........................................................................................................................................... 34
A.5 Important information about SATADOM ........................................................................................................... 35
A.6 Setting up the HTTP proxy in Prism ................................................................................................................. 35
A.7 Setting up the name Server (DNS) in Prism ..................................................................................................... 36
A.8 Creating bare metal recovery image ................................................................................................................ 36
B Introduction to troubleshooting ................................................................................................................................... 38
B.1 Foundation Applet issues ................................................................................................................................. 38
B.1.1 Unable to launch the Nutanix Foundation Applet from management workstation. .......................................... 38
B.2 Desired appliances are not discovered in Foundation Launcher. .................................................................... 39
B.2.1 Ensure management workstation is connected on the same production network. .......................................... 39
B.3 Cluster creation does not complete successfully ............................................................................................. 40
B.4 Unable to connect external networks/sites including websites, or PULSE ...................................................... 41
B.5 Why can’t I discover my appliances? ............................................................................................................... 41
C Deployment checklist ................................................................................................................................................. 42
C.1 Default / set up cluster credentials ................................................................................................................... 42