Install Guide

Contents
1 About Dell EMC XC740xd XC Series Appliance and the XC Core System solution..........................................4
2 Documentation references.............................................................................................................................6
3 License management..................................................................................................................................... 7
Setting up Nutanix Customer Portal................................................................................................................................7
Managing the license...................................................................................................................................................8
4 Deploying an appliance.................................................................................................................................. 9
Before you begin................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Setting up your appliance for rst use...........................................................................................................................10
Deploying XC Series Appliance and XC Core System............................................................................................10
Default cluster credentials............................................................................................................................................... 12
5 Downloading and installing software applications......................................................................................... 14
Downloading OpenManage Essentials........................................................................................................................... 14
Installing Dell OpenManage Essentials on a separate management server...............................................................14
Dell Nautilus.......................................................................................................................................................................15
6 Monitoring XC Series Appliances and XC Core Systems...............................................................................16
Monitoring the appliance by using iDRAC..................................................................................................................... 16
Monitoring the appliance by using Dell OpenManage Essentials................................................................................16
Monitoring an appliance by using Nutanix Web Console............................................................................................. 17
Monitoring an appliance by using Nutanix Prism.......................................................................................................... 17
7 Updating rmware........................................................................................................................................18
Updating XC hardware component rmware by using Nutanix Life Cycle Manager (LCM).................................. 18
8 Replacing hardware...................................................................................................................................... 19
Replacing components with no cluster data................................................................................................................. 19
Replacing failed front hard drive and SSD components that contain cluster data..................................................20
9 Recovering an appliance...............................................................................................................................21
10 Getting help............................................................................................................................................... 22
Contacting Dell EMC....................................................................................................................................................... 22
Dell EMC SupportAssist..................................................................................................................................................22
Locating Service Tag....................................................................................................................................................... 22
Quick Resource Locator..................................................................................................................................................23
A Bare metal recovery.....................................................................................................................................24
Creating a RASR USB disk for Hyper-V........................................................................................................................ 24
Creating a RASR USB disk for ESXi and AHV..............................................................................................................24
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