EMC VCE VxRail 60 User manual
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VCE VxRail™ Appliance 3.5
Product Guide
Document revision 1.0
June 2016
Revision history
Date Document revision Description of changes
June 2016 1.0 Initial release of VxRail Manager
v3.5.
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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................5
Support...................................................................................................................................................5
Registering for online support..........................................................................................................5
Where to go for support resources.................................................................................................. 6
Accessing VCE documentation.................................................................................................................7
Architecture overview................................................................................................................................ 8
Overview of the VxRail Series................................................................................................................8
The VxRail Appliance............................................................................................................................. 8
Storage and virtualization.......................................................................................................................9
VxRail Appliance models......................................................................................................................10
Features............................................................................................................................................... 11
VxRail Appliance cluster expansion..................................................................................................... 12
Physical planning..................................................................................................................................... 13
Appliance power and cooling information.............................................................................................13
Appliance dimensions and weight........................................................................................................ 13
Operating and storage environment.....................................................................................................14
Appliance components and controls.................................................................................................... 14
Locating your physical VxRail Appliance serial number.......................................................................17
Network planning......................................................................................................................................19
Pre-installation Site Checklist...............................................................................................................19
10GbE switch networking.....................................................................................................................19
Network requirements.......................................................................................................................... 19
VxRail Appliance Network Configuration Table....................................................................................20
Licensing Administration.........................................................................................................................23
Licensing overview............................................................................................................................... 23
Locating your partner activation code (PAC)........................................................................................23
Logging into the activation portal..........................................................................................................24
Activating a VLP license.......................................................................................................................24
Assigning a license to your VxRail Appliance...................................................................................... 25
Administration...........................................................................................................................................27
Viewing the VxRail Manager dashboard.............................................................................................. 27
Support resources................................................................................................................................ 29
Viewing EMC Secure Remote Support (ESRS) information..........................................................30
Using Support eServices............................................................................................................... 30
Using the support knowledge base................................................................................................31
Viewing system events.........................................................................................................................32
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Monitoring logical system health.......................................................................................................... 33
Viewing physical system health............................................................................................................35
Viewing and locating hardware events.......................................................................................... 35
Viewing physical disk status.......................................................................................................... 36
Viewing physical node status.........................................................................................................38
Viewing power supply status..........................................................................................................40
Viewing VxRail Appliance system configuration and applications........................................................41
Configuration General tab..............................................................................................................41
Config Features tab....................................................................................................................... 49
Using the VxRail Market................................................................................................................ 51
External storage........................................................................................................................................54
NFS and VMFS over iSCSI datastores................................................................................................ 54
Setting up external NFS storage for a VxRail Appliance......................................................................54
Setting up external VMFS over iSCSI storage for a VxRail Appliance.................................................55
Set up the iSCSI network portgroup.............................................................................................. 56
Create a VMkernel adapter on the hosts in the cluster..................................................................57
Set up an active software iSCSI adapter....................................................................................... 57
Assign volumes on iSCSI storage..................................................................................................58
Mount a new VMFS datastore over iSCSI..................................................................................... 58
Replacing hardware..................................................................................................................................60
Handling replaceable units................................................................................................................... 60
Avoiding electrostatic discharge (ESD) damage............................................................................60
Emergency procedures (without an ESD kit)................................................................................. 61
Hardware acclimation times...........................................................................................................61
Unpacking a part............................................................................................................................62
Replacing HDD and SSD drives...........................................................................................................62
Preparing to replace drives in VxRail Manager..............................................................................63
Removing the bezel....................................................................................................................... 65
Removing a disk drive tray from the appliance.............................................................................. 66
Installing a disk drive tray into the appliance................................................................................. 67
Installing the bezel......................................................................................................................... 68
Finishing up....................................................................................................................................69
Replacing power supply units (PSUs).................................................................................................. 69
Detecting a failed PSU...................................................................................................................70
Identify a faulted power supply unit................................................................................................70
Replacing a faulted power supply unit........................................................................................... 73
Out-of-band management........................................................................................................................ 76
Before you begin.................................................................................................................................. 76
About the VxRail Appliance BMC interface and RMM port.................................................................. 76
Finding the RMM DHCP address......................................................................................................... 77
Using the BMC Web console to launch the remote console................................................................ 78
VCE VxRail™ Appliance 3.5 Product Guide Contents
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Introduction
This document describes the VxRail™ Appliance, how it works, and how to perform administrative tasks.
The target audience for this document includes customers, field personnel, and partners who want to
deploy a VxRail™ Appliance. This document is designed for people familiar with:
•EMC and VCE systems and software
•VMware virtualization products
•Data center appliances and infrastructure
The VCE Glossary provides terms, definitions, and acronyms that are related to VCE Systems.
To suggest documentation changes and provide feedback on this book, send an email to
[email protected]. Include the name of the topic to which your feedback applies.
Support
Create an Online Support account to get access to support and product resources for your VxRail
Appliance.
If you already have an account, register your VxRail Appliance to access the available resources.
For convenience, you can link your Online Support account with the VxRail Manager and access support
resources without having to log in separately.
Registering for online support
Create an Online Support account to access support resources.
About this task
After you register, you can:
•Register your system
•Obtain product license files and software updates
•Download VxRail Series product documentation
•Download the SolVe Desktop Procedure Generator
•Browse the VxRail Series community and support information
•Link your support account for access to resources from within VxRail Manager
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Procedure
1Point your Web browser to emc.com/vxrailsupport (or support.emc.com).
2Click Register here.
3Fill in the required information. Support will send you a confirmation email, typically within 48
hours.
Where to go for support resources
Access support resources for your VxRail Appliance by doing any of the following:
•Click the VxRail Manager Support tab.
•Point your Web browser to emc.com/vxrailsupport (or support.emc.com).
Additional VxRail Series information is available through the SolVe desktop tool.
•Point your Web browser to https://solve.emc.com.
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Accessing VCE documentation
Select the documentation resource that applies to your role.
Role Resource
Customer support.vce.com
A valid username and password are required. Click VCE Download Center to access the
technical documentation.
Cisco, EMC, VMware
employee, or VCE
Partner
partner.vce.com
A valid username and password are required.
VCE employee sales.vce.com/saleslibrary
or
vblockproductdocs.ent.vce.com
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Architecture overview
Overview of the VxRail Series
The VCE VxRail Series delivers virtualization, compute, and storage in a scalable, easy to manage,
hyper-converged infrastructure appliance.
Your VxRail Appliance is built on Intel Xeon processor-based x86 hardware with the VxRail™ Manager
software bundle, and support for other value-added software from VCE, EMC, and VMware.
The VxRail Manager software bundle includes the following:
•VxRail™ Manager for deployment, configuration, and management
•VMware vSphere®, including ESXi
•VMware vCenter Server™
•VMware Virtual SAN™ for storage
•VMware vRealize Log Insight™
The VxRail Appliance
The VCE VxRail Appliance includes the appliance hardware, VxRail Manager, EMC Secure Remote
Services (ESRS), and access to qualified EMC software products.
Appliance hardware
The VxRail Appliance consists of four nodes in a 2U rackmount chassis. Each node has its own compute
and storage resources.
The following VxRail Appliance models are available:
VxRail Appliance modelsTable 1:
VxRail Appliance with Hybrid Nodes VxRail Appliance with All-flash Nodes
•VxRail 60
•VxRail 120
•VxRail 160
•VxRail 200
•VxRail 120F
•VxRail 160F
•VxRail 200F
•VxRail 240F
•VxRail 280F
A 10GbE switch and a workstation/laptop for the user interface are also required. (The VxRail 60
Appliance can be used with a 1GbE switch.)
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VxRail Manager
VxRail Manager provides a software stack for software-defined data center (SDDC) building blocks
including compute, network, storage, and management. VxRail Manager streamlines deployment,
configuration, and management for easier initial setup and ongoing operations.
VxRail Manager also provides integration for EMC services and support to help you get the most out of
your VxRail Appliance.
With VxRail Manager you can:
•Monitor system health with deep hardware intelligence and graphical representation
•View appliance software versions and updates
•Access EMC Online Support and eServices
•Access community resources such as the user forum and knowledgebase
•Use the VxRail™ Market to access qualified EMC software products
Storage and virtualization
The VxRail Series integrates VMware Virtual SAN and virtualization to provide a complete
hyperconverged infrastructure.
Storage
VMware Virtual SAN is integrated in your VxRail Appliance to provide Software-Defined Storage (SDS).
Virtual SAN is not a VSA, but is embedded in the ESXi hypervisor kernel’s I/O data path. As a result,
Virtual SAN can deliver the higher performance with minimum CPU and memory overhead.
Virtual SAN pools the VxRail Appliance's internal SSDs and HDDs on the ESXi hosts to present a single
datastore for all hosts in the cluster. Virtual SAN uses a highly available, distributed, object-based
architecture. Virtual SAN mirrors and distributes the individual virtual disk (VMDK) across the datastore.
Virtualization
The VxRail Series lets virtualization infrastructure administrators manage storage on a per-VM basis. This
VM-centric approach allows for storage policies to be defined at VM-level granularity for provisioning and
load balancing. Virtual SAN is fully integrated with vSphere, which simplifies setting up the availability,
capacity, and performance policies.
For scale-out, VxRail Manager uses VMware Loudmouth auto-discovery capabilities, based on the RFC-
recognized "Zero Network Configuration" protocol, to automatically discover and configure appliances on
your network. Loudmouth runs on each ESXi host and in theVxRail Manager virtual machine. Loudmouth
allows VxRail Manager to discover all the nodes and automate the configuration. Loudmouth requires
IPv6 multicast. The IPv6 multicast communication is strictly limited to the management VLAN that the
nodes use for communication.
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VxRail Appliance models
The following table lists the available VxRail Appliance models.
Model Compute Memory Network interface
VxRail 60 (hybrid nodes) 1 × Intel Xeon Processor
E5-2603 v3
6 cores per node
64 GB RAM RJ45
Q-1GbE
VxRail 120 (hybrid nodes) 2 × Intel Xeon Processor
E5-2620 v3
12 cores per node
128 GB RAM
192 GB RAM
256 GB RAM
RJ45
SFP+
VxRail 160 (hybrid nodes) 2 × Intel Xeon Processor
E5-2630 v3
16 cores per node
256 GB RAM
512 GB RAM
RJ45
SFP+
VxRail 200 (hybrid nodes) 2 × Intel Xeon Processor
E5-2660 v3
20 cores per node
256 GB RAM
512 GB RAM
RJ45
SFP+
VxRail 120F (all-flash
nodes)
2 × Intel Xeon Processor
E5-2620 v3
12 cores per node
256 GB RAM RJ45
SFP+
VxRail 160F (all-flash
nodes)
2 × Intel Xeon Processor
E5-2630 v3
16 cores per node
256 GB RAM
512 GB RAM
RJ45
SFP+
VxRail 200F (all-flash
nodes)
2 × Intel Xeon Processor
E5-2660 v3
20 cores per node
256 GB RAM
512 GB RAM
RJ45
SFP+
VxRail 240F (all-flash
nodes)
2 × Intel Xeon Processor
E5-2680 v3
24 cores per node
256 GB RAM
512 GB RAM
SFP+
VxRail 280F (all-flash
nodes)
2 × Intel Xeon Processor
E5-2683 v3
28 cores per node
256 GB RAM
512 GB RAM
SFP+
Note: For storage capacity information, and for the most up to date product offerings, visit VCE.com.
Hybrid nodes use both hard-disk drive (HDD) storage and solid-state drive (SSD) storage. All-flash nodes
use SSD storage only.
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