- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Revision history
- Introduction
- Architecture overview
- Network planning
- Licensing your VxRail
- Working with the VxRail Manager Plugin for VMware vCenter
- Overview of the VxRail Manager Plugin for VMware vCenter
- View the VxRail Dashboard
- Configure VxRail clusters
- Viewing the VxRail Manager version number
- Link your Online Support account to VxRail Manager
- Update VxRail Manager certificates
- Generating a diagnostic log bundle
- Configure a network proxy server
- Enable service connectivity
- Access SaaS multi-cluster management features using MyVxRail
- Setting Internet online/offline mode
- Configuring network traffic throttling
- Enable and disable cluster health monitoring
- Convert a VxRail-managed VMware vCenter Server to a customer-managed VMware vCenter Server
- Updating system software
- Viewing installed applications
- Use VxRail Market
- Configure VxRail satellite nodes
- View Remote Support Connectivity information
- Viewing physical system health
- Shut down a VxRail cluster
- Add a VxRail host to a cluster
- Remove a VxRail host from a cluster
- Other administrative tasks
- AD user management tasks
- Cluster management tasks
- Data center management tasks
- Data store management tasks
- DNS management tasks
- Service connectivity management tasks
- VMware ESXi host management tasks
- External VMware vCenter Server Appliance and PSC management tasks
- Internal VMware vCenter Server Appliance and PSC management tasks
- Migrate from a VxRail-managed VMware vCenter Server to a customer-managed VMware vCenter Server
- iDRAC configuration management tasks
- iSCSI management tasks
- Log server management tasks
- NFS management tasks
- NTP server management tasks
- VMware VDS management tasks
- VM folder management tasks
- VMware vSphere Standard Switch management tasks
- VxRail Manager management tasks
- External storage
- Replace and add VxRail hardware
Dell VxRail™ Appliance 4.7x Administration Guide
External VMware vCenter Server Appliance and PSC management tasks
For step-by-step instructions on managing the VMware vCenter Server Appliance and the Platform Services Controller (PSC) on VxRail systems with an external vCenter, see SolVe Online for VxRail or the VMware vSphere documentation.
The following table lists the VMware vCenter Server Appliance and PSC (external vCenter) management tasks and PSC administrative tasks for external vCenter systems by VxRail Manager software release.
| Task | 4.0.1xx | 4.0.200 | 4.0.3xx | 4.0.400 | 4.5.x | 4.7.xxx | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change the PSC IP address | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | |
| Change the vCSA IP address | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | |
| Rename the PSC VM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | See vSphere Documentation, "Changing a Virtual Machine Name" |
| Rename the PSC host | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | |
| Rename the vCSA host | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported | |
| Rename the vCSA VM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | See vSphere Documentation, "Changing a Virtual Machine Name" |
| Change the password for administrator@vsphere.local | Not supported | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | See vSphere Documentation, "Change your vCenter Server Single Sign-on Password" |
| Change the VxRail External Management User Password (management@localos) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | See SolVe Online for VxRail |
| Change the password of the PSC root user (root@localos) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | See vSphere Documentation, "Change the Password of the Root User" |
| Change the password of the vCSA root user (root@vCSA) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | See vSphere Documentation, "Change the Password of the Root User" |
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