Reference Guide

Contents
1 About Dell Hyper-Converged Appliance solution.............................................................................................4
2 Supported hardware, rmware, and software................................................................................................ 5
3 Documentation references.............................................................................................................................6
4 Licensing overview.........................................................................................................................................7
Starter license.....................................................................................................................................................................7
Pro and Ultimate licenses.................................................................................................................................................. 7
Setting up Nutanix Customer Portal................................................................................................................................7
License management.........................................................................................................................................................8
5 Deploying your appliance...............................................................................................................................9
Important information about SATADOM.........................................................................................................................9
Examples of write intensive applications...................................................................................................................9
Before you begin...............................................................................................................................................................10
Setting up your Dell appliance for rst use....................................................................................................................10
Deployment outline......................................................................................................................................................11
Default cluster credentials............................................................................................................................................... 12
6 Downloading and installing Software applications.........................................................................................14
OpenManage Essentials...................................................................................................................................................14
Installing Dell OpenManage Essentials on a separate server.......................................................................................14
Dell Nautilus ......................................................................................................................................................................15
7 Monitoring....................................................................................................................................................16
Monitoring software.........................................................................................................................................................16
8 Updating rmware........................................................................................................................................17
Updating XC hardware component rmware by using Nutanix Life Cycle Manager (LCM).................................. 17
9 Replacing hardware...................................................................................................................................... 18
Replacing components with no cluster data................................................................................................................. 18
Replacing failed front HDD and SSD components that contain cluster data............................................................18
10 Recovering appliance................................................................................................................................. 20
11 Getting help.................................................................................................................................................21
Contacting Dell EMC........................................................................................................................................................21
Dell SupportAssist.............................................................................................................................................................21
Locating your system Service Tag................................................................................................................................. 22
Quick Resource Locator .................................................................................................................................................23
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