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Contents

Introduction.................................................................................................................................................5

Support...................................................................................................................................................5

Registering for online support.......................................................................................................... 5
Where to go for support resources.................................................................................................. 6

Accessing VCE documentation.................................................................................................................7

Architecture overview................................................................................................................................ 8

Overview of the VxRail Series................................................................................................................8
The VxRail Appliance............................................................................................................................. 8
Storage and virtualization.......................................................................................................................9
VxRail Appliance models......................................................................................................................10
Features............................................................................................................................................... 11
VxRail Appliance cluster expansion..................................................................................................... 12

Physical planning..................................................................................................................................... 13

Appliance power and cooling information.............................................................................................13
Appliance dimensions and weight........................................................................................................ 13
Operating and storage environment.....................................................................................................14
Appliance components and controls.................................................................................................... 14
Locating your physical VxRail Appliance serial number.......................................................................17

Network planning......................................................................................................................................19

Pre-installation Site Checklist...............................................................................................................19
10GbE switch networking.....................................................................................................................19
Network requirements.......................................................................................................................... 19
VxRail Appliance Network Configuration Table....................................................................................20

Licensing Administration.........................................................................................................................23

Licensing overview............................................................................................................................... 23
Locating your partner activation code (PAC)........................................................................................23
Logging into the activation portal..........................................................................................................24
Activating a VLP license.......................................................................................................................24
Assigning a license to your VxRail Appliance...................................................................................... 25

Administration...........................................................................................................................................27

Viewing the VxRail Manager dashboard.............................................................................................. 27
Support resources................................................................................................................................ 29

Viewing EMC Secure Remote Support (ESRS) information..........................................................30
Using Support eServices............................................................................................................... 30
Using the support knowledge base................................................................................................31

Viewing system events.........................................................................................................................32

Contents

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Страница 1: ...www vce com VCE VxRail Appliance 3 5 Product Guide Document revision 1 0 June 2016...

Страница 2: ...n history Date Document revision Description of changes June 2016 1 0 Initial release of VxRail Manager v3 5 VCE VxRail Appliance 3 5 Product Guide Revision history 2 2016 VCE Company LLC All Rights R...

Страница 3: ...al VxRail Appliance serial number 17 Network planning 19 Pre installation Site Checklist 19 10GbE switch networking 19 Network requirements 19 VxRail Appliance Network Configuration Table 20 Licensing...

Страница 4: ...58 Mount a new VMFS datastore over iSCSI 58 Replacing hardware 60 Handling replaceable units 60 Avoiding electrostatic discharge ESD damage 60 Emergency procedures without an ESD kit 61 Hardware accli...

Страница 5: ...nline Support account to get access to support and product resources for your VxRail Appliance If you already have an account register your VxRail Appliance to access the available resources For conve...

Страница 6: ...pport resources Access support resources for your VxRail Appliance by doing any of the following Click the VxRail Manager Support tab Point your Web browser to emc com vxrailsupport or support emc com...

Страница 7: ...re required Click VCE Download Center to access the technical documentation Cisco EMC VMware employee or VCE Partner partner vce com A valid username and password are required VCE employee sales vce c...

Страница 8: ...ail Appliance The VCE VxRail Appliance includes the appliance hardware VxRail Manager EMC Secure Remote Services ESRS and access to qualified EMC software products Appliance hardware The VxRail Applia...

Страница 9: ...minimum CPU and memory overhead Virtual SAN pools the VxRail Appliance s internal SSDs and HDDs on the ESXi hosts to present a single datastore for all hosts in the cluster Virtual SAN uses a highly...

Страница 10: ...E5 2620 v3 12 cores per node 256 GB RAM RJ45 SFP VxRail 160F all flash nodes 2 Intel Xeon Processor E5 2630 v3 16 cores per node 256 GB RAM 512 GB RAM RJ45 SFP VxRail 200F all flash nodes 2 Intel Xeon...

Страница 11: ...icy The following table lists the minimum number of nodes in a cluster required to support a given number of node failures Number of node failures to tolerate Number of replicas Minimum number of VxRa...

Страница 12: ...ppliances in the cluster must be running VxRail Manager version 3 5 or higher First generation appliances sold under the VSPEX BLUE name can be in the same cluster with VxRail Appliances as long as th...

Страница 13: ...ndant PSUs 2 1600 W high efficiency redundant PSUs AC line voltage 220V AC 50 60Hz 220V AC 50 60Hz 220V AC 50 60Hz Power consumption operating maximum 13347 KVA 1337 KVA 1486 KVA Heat dissipation 4561...

Страница 14: ...40 F to 158 F Operating relative humidity 50 to 85 RH Non operating relative humidity 20 to 90 RH Storage time unpowered Recommendation Do not exceed 6 consecutive months of unpowered storage Applian...

Страница 15: ...ode 3 disk drive group 4 Node 4 disk drive group 5 Node 1 front control panel 6 Node 2 front control panel 7 Node 3 front control panel 8 Node 4 front control panel 9 Product serial number tag PSNT Fi...

Страница 16: ...ption 1 Power button with Status LED Blue On System power on Off System power off Amber Blinking DC off and fault Amber and Blue Blinking DC on and fault 2 ID button with LED Blue Blinking Identificat...

Страница 17: ...healthy Amber Blinking Reports system health fault 3 Power button Press and hold more than four seconds to turn off node 4 ID LED Blue Blinking Identification activated from front control panel Off N...

Страница 18: ...2 and 3 on the left side of the chassis 2 Pull out the blue tabbed tag located above drives 2 and 3 3 Locate the appliance serial number label on the pull out tag VCE VxRail Appliance 3 5 Product Guid...

Страница 19: ...ster and the rest of your infrastructure It is crucial that your 10GbE switch be configured properly for the VxRail Appliance to work Work with your VCE EMC or partner representative to ensure your sw...

Страница 20: ...E switch for use with your VxRail Appliance This table lists the network parameters that are configured during VxRail Appliance setup Use the table before setup to plan your configuration Work with yo...

Страница 21: ...s for IP pool 192 168 10 1 ESXi ending address for IP pool 192 168 10 4 vCenter Server IP address 192 168 10 1 01 VxRail Appliance IP address 192 168 10 1 00 Subnet mask 255 255 255 0 Gateway 192 168...

Страница 22: ...twork name and VLAN ID Sales 110 VM Network name and VLAN ID Marketing 120 Unlimited number Solutions Logging vRealize Log Insight hostname loginsight vRealize Log Insight IP address 192 168 10 1 02 S...

Страница 23: ...their VCE EMC or partner representative to obtain their license Procedure 1 Locate your partner activation code PAC 2 Log into the activation portal and redeem your PAC to receive your license keys U...

Страница 24: ...Codes page enter your PAC in the Activation Code box 4 Click Continue and follow the instructions You will receive an email containing the license key The license key must next be prepared for your Vx...

Страница 25: ...nterprise Plus CPU license What to do next For additional information on how to manage existing vSphere license keys in order to meet the Bring Your Own vSphere Licensing VLP requirements work with yo...

Страница 26: ...o assign the new license to a host click the Assets tab and then click Hosts 9 Select the host and click Assign License Shift click to select multiple hosts to license A pop up window shows all availa...

Страница 27: ...s overall system health support community activity and event history Figure 6 VxRail Manager Dashboard screen Expansion Expansion shows the status additional nodes being added to your VxRail Appliance...

Страница 28: ...community shows the most recent articles and other content from the online VxRail community Support Support shows status and links to support resources including Last Heartbeat The last time an EMC S...

Страница 29: ...ice Request Navigates to eServices where you can open a service request View the Last Configuration Sent Displays the most recent VxRail Appliance configuration data sent using ESRS Connect Home ESRS...

Страница 30: ...rt eServices directly from VxRail Manager Before you begin To use Support eServices you must have created an account To create an account visit support EMC com About this task The VxRail Manager lets...

Страница 31: ...he most recent activity from the VxRail Series community forums Procedure 1 Click SUPPORT in VxRail Manager to navigate to the Support tab 2 Observe the VxRail Community list The most recent activity...

Страница 32: ...ts detected the EVENTS icon displays the number of unread events in red in the navigation bar Figure 8 VxRail Manager Events screen Procedure 1 Click EVENTS to navigate to the VxRail Manager Events ta...

Страница 33: ...w its status on the Health Physical screen 6 To download a list of events click Export all events An events csv file is created and downloaded by your browser Monitoring logical system health You can...

Страница 34: ...orage IOPS CPU usage and memory usage indicates the following Red Over 85 used Yellow 75 to 85 used Green Less than 75 used 2 Click an appliance name to view information about that appliance 3 Scroll...

Страница 35: ...t and status information Use the Health window Physical tab to view the following Appliances in the cluster View appliance status and information such as ID serial number and so on Individual applianc...

Страница 36: ...t to view more details Click a Disk in the Front View to see disk status and information Click a Node in the Back View to see compute and network information Click a power supply in the Back View to s...

Страница 37: ...played for that disk 5 If a status icon is displayed click it to view event details in the Health window Results The Disk Information panel lists disk status and information about the drive such as St...

Страница 38: ...he action you want Turn On Disk Locator LED Indicator starts flashing the disk LED Turn Off Disk Locator LED Indicator stops flashing the disk LED Viewing physical node status View compute SATA DOM an...

Страница 39: ...Network interface card NIC MAC addresses and status Switching a node chassis LED on and off Switch a node s chassis LED indicator on or off The chassis LED flashes to help locate the node appliance i...

Страница 40: ...and information for the power supplies of any appliance disk in a cluster Procedure 1 In VxRail Manager click HEALTH The Health window is displayed 2 Click Physical The Physical tab is displayed 3 Cl...

Страница 41: ...formation and settings for VxRail Manager including VxRail Manager version Linked Online Support account Log collection EMC Secure Remote Support ESRS Network offline mode Health monitoring suppressio...

Страница 42: ...ndle Enable EMC Secure Remote Support Displays whether or not ESRS is enabled on your VxRail Appliance Configure Network Environment Settings Disable certain features in offline mode Suppress Cluster...

Страница 43: ...Figure 10 VxRail Manager Configuration General screen Administration VCE VxRail Appliance 3 5 Product Guide 43 2016 VCE Company LLC All Rights Reserved...

Страница 44: ...ing for online support Procedure 1 In VxRail Manager click CONFIGURATION The Configuration window is displayed 2 Click General The General tab is displayed 3 Click one of the following buttons Set Sup...

Страница 45: ...The Configuration window is displayed 2 Click General The General tab is displayed 3 Verify the value of Your current ESRS status is Disabled ESRS is not activated Deployed ESRS has been installed bu...

Страница 46: ...Setting Internet online offline mode Follow these steps to enable or disable your VxRail Appliance s connection to the Internet About this task Note Some VxRail Manager features are disabled when the...

Страница 47: ...of the banner Running a complete system diagnostic Follow these steps to run a complete system diagnostic report for your VxRail Appliance Procedure 1 In VxRail Manager click CONFIGURATION The Configu...

Страница 48: ...s the progress on the Shutdown precheck list 5 When the shutdown precheck process successfully completes click Shutdown A progress bar is displayed as the automated shut down process continues If the...

Страница 49: ...of the VxRail Manager Configuration window displays information about the applications and add ons currently installed on your VxRail Appliance It also allows you to download updates for those compone...

Страница 50: ...nstalled on your VxRail Appliance About this task When a new version of an application is available CONFIGURATION in the left navigation bar displays a highlighted number The Update button is also dis...

Страница 51: ...l Manager click CONFIGURATION The Configuration window is displayed 2 Click Market The Market tab is displayed 3 Scroll the Available Applications for this Cluster list if necessary to view all the ap...

Страница 52: ...status messages may be displayed for an application instance Downloading The application is currently downloading Pending The application is waiting until another application finishes downloading IP a...

Страница 53: ...The Market tab is displayed 3 Scroll the Available Applications for this Cluster list to find the application you want Filter the application list using the filter at the top of the list if desired 4...

Страница 54: ...e Web Client to configure NFS and iSCSI on the ESXi hosts in the VxRail Appliance cluster and to create NFS datastores and VMFS datastores over iSCSI on external arrays in the vCenter Server Appliance...

Страница 55: ...the hosts in the VxRail Appliance cluster that will mount the datastore You can select any or all hosts in the cluster 12 In the Ready to complete window review your entries and then click Finish to...

Страница 56: ...Create a distributed port group first Procedure 1 Log in to the vSphere Web Client as an authorized user 2 In the vSphere Web Client click the home icon and go to the Networking configuration page 3...

Страница 57: ...to complete the VMkernel creation Results The newly added VMkernel adapter is displayed and the detail info is shown in the lower panel The network configuration for iSCSI on the host is finished Set...

Страница 58: ...k the Rescan the iSCSI Software Adapter icon The warning message disappears and the iSCSI Target server is displayed in the lower panel 13 Click Static Discovery to show the full target name of the iS...

Страница 59: ...on The datastore status changes to Normal 7 In the Storage tab check the connection status between the iSCSI datastore and the hosts Results After the VMFS over iSCSI datastore is created you can Prov...

Страница 60: ...body discharges through the circuits If the air in the work area is very dry running a humidifier in the work area will help decrease the risk of ESD damage Follow the procedures below to prevent dama...

Страница 61: ...nnel or surfaces until you have installed the unit When you remove a unit from the antistatic bag avoid touching any electronic components and circuits on it If you must move around the room or touch...

Страница 62: ...nges in temperature and humidity that are likely to cause condensation to form on or in that system or component Do not exceed the shipping and storage temperature gradient of 45 F hr 25 C hr Unpackin...

Страница 63: ...following steps Refer to the following sections for detailed instructions 1 To start the replacement procedure navigate to the VxRail Manager Health Physical screen 2 Click the drive you want to repla...

Страница 64: ...g ESXi host into maintenance mode and then powers it off The host s locator LED is on and the other LEDs for the cluster are off The VMs running on the host are migrated to other hosts in the cluster...

Страница 65: ...ront of the appliance The bezel is required for EMI compliance when the enclosure is powered up Procedure 1 If the bezel has a lock insert the key that shipped with your enclosure into the lock and tu...

Страница 66: ...Disk drives may be removed while the system is operational but should be immediately replace by another disk drive or an empty disk drive tray Procedure 1 Press the disk drive tray release button 2 P...

Страница 67: ...the replacement disk drive and place it on a clean static free surface 2 Align the disk drive tray with the disk drive bay slot 3 Insert the disk drive tray into the bay and push the tray in until it...

Страница 68: ...ent disk drive shipped in re package the faulted disk drive and prepare the package for return shipping Installing the bezel Procedure 1 Align the bezel with the appliance 2 Gently push the bezel into...

Страница 69: ...out of maintenance mode 4 When the success message is displayed click Finish to complete the process Replacing power supply units PSUs VxRail Manager helps you identify failed power supplies in your...

Страница 70: ...View of the appliance are displayed 4 Click a PSU in the Back View The Power Supply Information panel is displayed for that node The failed PSU is highlighted in red in the Back View of the appliance...

Страница 71: ...on 1 Power Supply Status LED Green Normal operation Amber blinking Power off fault Green blinking Power on standby mode Each of the four nodes have a node control panel at the front of the appliance C...

Страница 72: ...ff Amber Blinking DC off and fault Amber and Blue Blinking DC on and fault 2 ID button with LED Blue Blinking Identification activated Off No identification Each node is equipped with a power button a...

Страница 73: ...Blinking Reports system health fault 3 Power button Press and hold more that four seconds to turn off node 4 ID LED Blue Blinking Identification activated from front control panel Off No identificatio...

Страница 74: ...and place it on a clean static free surface near the appliance 6 Align the replacement power supply unit with the slot in the appliance 7 Push the power supply unit into the slot until it clicks Ensur...

Страница 75: ...the status indicator on the power supply unit indicates normal operation Identify a faulted power supply unit see page 70 11 Using the shipping materials that the replacement power supply unit shipped...

Страница 76: ...Appliance to stop operating Use the BMC Web console and remote console solely for read only monitoring purposes About the VxRail Appliance BMC interface and RMM port Your VxRail Appliance offers a bas...

Страница 77: ...Press and hold for more than 4 seconds to power off the motherboard 6 Mainboard status indicator Off normal Flashing amber BMC reports system health fault 7 Power indicator Off power is off Flashing b...

Страница 78: ...urity is only assured by using a cipher strength encryption of 128 bit Some older browsers may not support strong 128 bit encryption To use the remote console KVM window of your managed server Java Ru...

Страница 79: ...mple http 192 168 101 11 2 Log into the BMC Web console by entering the following username and password Username admin Password admin Figure 23 BMC Web console login screen Out of band management VCE...

Страница 80: ...isplayed to download the Java Network Launch Protocol jviewer jnlp file This in turn downloads the standalone Java application implementing the remote console Both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozi...

Страница 81: ...s to the Integrated BMC Web console The protocol used to run these connections is a unique KVM protocol and not HTTP or HTTPS This protocol uses ports 7578 for KVM 5120 for CDROM media redirection and...

Страница 82: ...es all of the nodes in the appliance You must follow the proper procedure to gracefully shut down and start up the VxRail Appliance A hard power cycle through the BMC interface without interfacing wit...

Страница 83: ...managing IT infrastructure VCE solutions are available through an extensive partner network and cover horizontal applications vertical industry offerings and application development environments allow...

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