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
After the drivers are downloaded, copy the identified drivers to AX nodes from where you can manually run the driver DUP files
to install the drivers and restart the node.
Alternatively, to install the drivers silently, navigate to the folder and run the following command: DriverUpdate.EXE /s /f
Exiting the AX node from maintenance mode
After updating the AX node, exit the storage maintenance mode and node maintenance mode by running the following
commands:
Get-StorageFaultDomain -type StorageScaleUnit | Where-Object {$_.FriendlyName -eq
"<Hostname>"} | Disable-StorageMaintenanceMode
Resume-ClusterNode -Name “Hostname” -Failback Immediate
These commands initiate the operation of rebuilding and rebalancing the data to ensure load balancing.
For the remaining cluster nodes, repeat the preceding procedures for conducting maintenance operations.
Expanding the Azure Stack HCI cluster
Expanding cluster compute or storage capacity are tasks performed during cluster operations. This section provides instructions
for performing these tasks.
Figure 21. Expanding the Azure Stack HCI cluster
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