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
Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................. 4
Document scope.................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Audience and assumptions................................................................................................................................................ 4
Known issues........................................................................................................................................................................ 4
Microsoft HCI Solutions from Dell Technologies overview....................................................................................... 4
Deployment guidance......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Chapter 2: Day 0 Operations..........................................................................................................7
Azure onboarding for Azure Stack HCI OS................................................................................................................... 7
Licensing for Azure Stack HCI for Windows Server 2016 and 2019....................................................................... 7
Creating virtual disks...........................................................................................................................................................7
Managing and Monitoring Azure Stack HCI Cluster using Windows Admin Center........................................... 8
Installing Windows Admin Center.............................................................................................................................. 8
Adding the HCI cluster connection........................................................................................................................... 9
Accessing the HCI cluster..........................................................................................................................................10
Viewing server details................................................................................................................................................. 10
Viewing drive details.....................................................................................................................................................11
Managing and monitoring volumes.......................................................................................................................... 12
Enabling data deduplication on Storage Spaces Direct...................................................................................... 14
Monitoring and managing VMs................................................................................................................................. 14
Managing virtual switches......................................................................................................................................... 16
Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Windows Admin Center................................................................... 17
Firmware updates using Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center for
System Center Virtual Machine Manager......................................................................................................... 26
Firmware and driver updates using the manual method.................................................................................... 29
Restarting a cluster node or taking a cluster node offline................................................................................ 33
Expanding the Azure Stack HCI cluster.................................................................................................................33
Extending volumes...................................................................................................................................................... 35
Performing AX node recovery.................................................................................................................................. 36
Operating system recovery.......................................................................................................................................38
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