Dell EMC VxRail Appliance - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

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Contents

VxRail overview ............................................................................................................. 6

Hardware ............................................................................................................................................ 7

vSphere .............................................................................................................................................. 7

VMware vCenter Server .................................................................................................................. 7

VMware ESXI hypervisor ................................................................................................................. 8

VMware virtual networking............................................................................................................... 8

vSAN .................................................................................................................................................. 8

Storage policy based management (SPBM)..................................................................................... 9

VxRail Manager ................................................................................................................................... 9

vRealize Log Insight ............................................................................................................................ 9

VxRail support ............................................................................................................. 10

Dell EMC support account ................................................................................................................. 10

Registering for online support ........................................................................................................ 10

Accessing Dell EMC Support from VxRail Manager ....................................................................... 10

Dell EMC Secure Remote Services (ESRS)....................................................................................... 11

Confirming ESRS connection ........................................................................................................ 11

Accessing Support eServices ............................................................................................................ 11

Opening a live chat session with support personnel ....................................................................... 11

Contacting Customer Service to request service ............................................................................ 12

VxRail community forums .............................................................................................................. 12

Support knowledge base ............................................................................................................... 12

SolVe Desktop application for VxRail series....................................................................................... 12

Monitoring a VxRail Appliance using VxRail Manager ............................................. 13

Monitoring logical system health ........................................................................................................ 14

Procedure ..................................................................................................................................... 14

Viewing physical system health ......................................................................................................... 15

Procedure ..................................................................................................................................... 15

Powering down and powering up a VxRail Appliance ............................................. 17

Shutting down a VxRail cluster .......................................................................................................... 17

Starting up VxRail.............................................................................................................................. 18

Viewing system events using VxRail Manager ......................................................... 19

Procedure ......................................................................................................................................... 20

VxRail Market ............................................................................................................... 21

Procedure ......................................................................................................................................... 21

Managing a VxRail cluster using vCenter ................................................................. 23

VxRail vCenter options ...................................................................................................................... 23

VxRail Manager deployed vCenter ................................................................................................ 23

Customer deployed vCenter .......................................................................................................... 23