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
5. Click Add Pending Operations.
6. Go to Configuration > Storage Configuration > Virtual Disk Configuration.
Figure 26. Initialize configuration
7. Select the virtual disk, and then select Initialize: Fast in Virtual Disk Actions.
8. Reboot the server.
NOTE: The virtual disk creation process might take several minutes to complete.
9. After the initialization is completed successfully, the virtual disk health status is displayed.
Figure 27. Virtual disk health status
Operating system recovery
This section provides an overview of steps involved in operating system recovery on the Dell EMC Solutions for Azure Stack
HCI.
NOTE: Ensure that the RAID 1 VD created on the BOSS M.2 drives is reinitialized.
NOTE: Do not reinitialize or clear the data on the disks that were a part of the Storage Spaces Direct storage pool. This
helps to reduce repair times when the node is added back to the same cluster after recovery.
Manual operating system recovery
For manually deployed nodes, you can recover the operating system on the node by using any of the methods that were used
for operating system deployment.
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