Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC HCI Solutions for Microsoft Windows Server: Managing and Monitoring the Solution Infrastructure Life Cycle Operations Guide
- Introduction
- Day 0 Operations
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- Expanding the Azure Stack HCI cluster
- Extending volumes
- Performing AX node recovery
- Operating system recovery
To view the drive inventory from the cluster nodes, from the left pane, select Drives, and then click the Inventory tab.
Figure 8. Drives: Inventory tab
The HCI cluster is built using four AX-740xd nodes, each with two 1.92 TB NVMe drives.
By clicking the serial number of the drive, you can view the drive information, which includes health status, slot location,
size, type, firmware version, IOPS, used or available capacity, and storage pool of the drive.
Also, from the dashboard, you can set the drive options as Light On or Light Off, or Retire or Unretire from the storage
pool.
Managing and monitoring volumes
You can manage and monitor the Storage Spaces Direct volumes using Windows Admin Center.
The following features are supported in Windows Admin Center:
● Create volume
● Browse volume
● Expand volume
● Delete volume
● Make volume offline or online
To access the volumes on the HCI cluster, select the cluster and, in the left pane, click Volumes. In the right pane, the
Summary and Inventory tabs are displayed.
The Summary tab shows the number of volumes in the cluster and the health status of the volumes, alerts, total IOPS, latency,
and throughput information of the available volumes.
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Day 0 Operations