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
Restarting a cluster node or taking a cluster node offline
About this task
Use the following procedure to restart a cluster node or to take a cluster node offline for maintenance:
Steps
1. Verify the health status of your cluster and volumes:
● Get-StorageSubSystem -FriendlyName *Cluster* | Get-StorageHealthReport
● Get-physicaldisk
● Get-virtualdisks
2. Suspend the cluster node:
● Suspend-ClusterNode -name “Hostname” -Drain
3. Enable storage maintenance mode:
● Get-StorageFaultDomain -type StorageScaleUnit | Where-Object {$_.FriendlyName -eq
"<Hostname>"} | Enable-StorageMaintenanceMode
4. Restart the server or shut it down for maintenance.
5. Disable storage maintenance mode.
● Get-StorageFaultDomain -type StorageScaleUnit | Where-Object {$_.FriendlyName -eq
"<Hostname>"} | Disable-StorageMaintenanceMode
6. Resume the cluster node:
● Resume-ClusterNode -Name “Hostname” -Failback Immediate
Results
For more information, see Taking a Storage Spaces Direct server offline for maintenance.
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.
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