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
FullPowerCycle
FullPowerCycle is a calling interface function that provides a way to reset the server auxiliary power. An increasing amount of
server hardware runs on server auxiliary power. Troubleshooting some server issues requires you to physically unplug the server
power cable to reset the hardware running on auxiliary power.
The FullPowerCycle feature enables the administrator to connect or disconnect auxiliary power remotely without visiting the
data center. This feature is supported on AX nodes and Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes.
These are the relevant commands to run in the PowerShell console:
● To request FullPowerCycle on your system: Invoke-FullPowerCycle —status request
● To get the status of FullPowerCycle on your system: Invoke-FullPowerCycle -status Get
● To cancel FullPowerCycle on your system: Invoke-FullPowerCycle -status cancel
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