Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies: Managing and Monitoring the Solution Infrastructure Life Cycle Operations Guide
- Contents
- Introduction
- Day 0 Operations
- 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
- Prerequisites for managing AX nodes
- Installing the Azure Stack HCI license (Ready Nodes only)
- Managing Azure Stack HCI clusters
- Full Stack Cluster-Aware Updating prerequisites for AX-7525 and AX-6515 nodes (offline update)
- Full Stack Cluster-Aware Updating for Azure Stack HCI clusters using the OpenManage Integration snap-in
- Updating a stand-alone node before adding it to the cluster
- Known issues
- 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
- Restarting a cluster node or taking a cluster node offline
- Expanding the Azure Stack HCI cluster
- Extending volumes
- Performing AX node recovery
- Operating system recovery
Figure 18. Cluster Aware Update
When the update job is completed, the compliance job is triggered automatically.
Full Stack Cluster-Aware Updating prerequisites for AX-7525 and AX-6515
nodes (offline update)
About this task
If an Internet connection is not available, run Full Stack Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) in offline mode as follows:
Steps
1. Download the asHCISolutionSupportMatrix.json and asHCISolutionSupportMatrix.json.sign files from
http://downloads.dell.com/omimswac/supportmatrix/.
2. Place these files in the C:\Users\Dell\SymmetryCheck folder in the gateway system where Windows Admin Center is
installed.
3. Run Full Stack CAU.
Results
For more information about CAU, see the Cluster-Aware Updating Overview.
Full Stack Cluster-Aware Updating for Azure Stack HCI clusters using the
OpenManage Integration snap-in
About this task
Windows Admin Center with the Dell EMC extension makes it easy to update an Azure Stack HCI cluster using the cluster
aware update feature. The feature updates the operating system and Dell EMC-qualified firmware and drivers. When an update
is selected, all the updates are installed on the cluster nodes. A single reboot is required to install operating system, firmware,
and driver updates per server.
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