HX-Series HyperFlex Data Platform yeHCI System
Zvinotsanangurwa
- Product: Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System
- Features: Fully contained virtual server platform, combines
compute, storage, and network layers, Cisco HX Data Platform
software tool, modular design for scalability - Management: Cisco HyperFlex Connect User Interface, VMware
vCenter Management
Mirayiridzo Yekushandiswa Kwechigadzirwa
1. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Components
The Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System is a modular system that
combines compute, storage, and network layers. It is designed to
scale out by adding HX nodes under a single UCS management
domain.
2. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Configuration Options
The system offers flexible options to expand storage and compute
capabilities. To add more storage, simply add a Cisco HyperFlex
Server. An HX Cluster is a group of HX-Series Servers, with each
server referred to as an HX node or Host.
3. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Management Components
The system is managed using Cisco software components including
Cisco HyperFlex Connect User Interface and VMware vCenter
Management. VMware vCenter is used for data center management and
monitoring virtualized environments, while the HX Data Platform
performs storage tasks.
FAQ
Q: How is the Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System managed?
A: The system is managed using the Cisco HyperFlex Connect User
Interface and VMware vCenter Management software components.
Q: What is an HX Cluster?
A: An HX Cluster is a group of HX-Series Servers, with each
server in the cluster referred to as an HX node or Host.
Overview
Ichi chikamu chinopa pamusoroview of the components in Cisco HyperFlex Systems: · Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System, on page 1 · Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Components, on page 1 · Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Configuration Options, on page 3 · Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Management Components, on page 6 · Cisco HyperFlex Connect User Interface and Online Help, on page 7
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System inopa yakazara yakazara, virtual server chikuva inosanganisa ese matatu akaturikidzana ekombuta, chengetedzo, uye network ine simba Cisco HX Data Platform software chishandiso chinokonzeresa imwe poindi yekubatanidza kune yakareruka manejimendi. Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System ndeye modular sisitimu yakagadzirirwa kuyera kunze nekuwedzera HX node pasi peimwe UCS manejimendi domain. Iyo hyperconverged system inopa dziva rakabatana rezviwanikwa zvinoenderana nezvinodiwa nebasa rako.
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Zvikamu
· Cisco HX-Series Server–You can use any of the following servers to configure the Cisco HyperFlex System: · Converged nodes–All Flash: Cisco HyperFlex HX245c M6, HXAF240c M6, HXAF225c M6, HXAF220c M6, HXAF240c M5 and HXAF220c M5. · Converged nodes–Hybrid: Cisco HyperFlex HX245c M6, HXAF240c M6, HX225c M6, HXAF220c M6, HXAF240c M5 and HXAF220c M5. · Compute-only–Cisco B480 M5, C480 M5, B200 M5/M6, C220 M5/M6, and C240 M5/M6.
· Cisco HX Data Platform –The HX Data Platform consists of the following components: · Cisco HX Data Platform Installer: Download this installer to a server connected to the storage cluster. The HX Data Platform Installer configures the service profiles uye marongero ari mukati meCisco UCS Maneja, anotumira mutongi maVM, anoisa software, anogadzira boka rekuchengetedza, uye anogadziridza VMware vCenter plug-in.
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Zvikamu
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· Storage Controller VM: Using the HX Data Platform Installer, installs the storage controller VM on each converged node in the managed storage cluster.
· Cisco HX Data Platform Plug-in: This integrated VMware vSphere interface monitors and manages the storage in your storage cluster.
· Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects (FI) Fabric Interconnects provide both network connectivity and management capabilities to any attached Cisco HX-Series Server. FI that were purchased and deployed as part of the Cisco HyperFlex System are also referred to as an HX FI Domain in this document. The following Fabric Interconnects are supported: · Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects
· Cisco UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnects
· Cisco UCS 6400 Series Fabric Interconnects
· Cisco UCS 6500 Series Fabric Interconnects
· Cisco Nexus Switches Cisco Nexus switches deliver high-density, configurable ports for flexible access deployment and migration.
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Configuration Options Figure 1: Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Component Details
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Configuration Options
Iyo Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System inopa inochinjika uye inogona scalable sarudzo yekuwedzera kuchengetedza uye compute kugona munharaunda yako. Kuti uwedzere mamwe masimba ekuchengetedza kuCisco HyperFlex System yako, unongowedzera Cisco HyperFlex Server.
Note An HX Cluster is a group of HX-Series Servers. Each HX-Series Server in the cluster is referred to as an HX node or a Host.
You can configure a HX Cluster in many ways, the following images provide general configuration examples. Kuti uwane yazvino kuenderana uye scalability ruzivo tarisa iyo Cisco HX Data Platform Kuenderana uye Scalability Details - 5.5(x) Inoburitswa chitsauko muCisco HyperFlex Inokurudzirwa Kuburitswa Kwesoftware uye Zvinodiwa Gwaro:
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Configuration Options Figure 2: Cisco HyperFlex Hybrid M6 Configurations
Mufananidzo 3: Cisco HyperFlex Hybrid M6 Configurations
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Overview Mufananidzo 4: Cisco HyperFlex Hybrid M5 Configurations
Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Configuration Options
Mufananidzo 5: Cisco HyperFlex All Flash M6 Configurations
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Management Components Figure 6: Cisco HyperFlex All Flash M5 Configurations
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Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System Management Zvikamu
Iyo Cisco HyperFlex HX-Series System inotungamirwa uchishandisa zvinotevera Cisco software zvikamu:
Cisco UCS Manager Cisco UCS Manager is embedded software that resides on a pair of Fabric Interconnects providing complete configuration and management capabilities for Cisco HX-Series Server. The most common way to access UCS Manager is to use a web browser kuvhura iyo GUI. UCS Maneja inotsigira basa-yakavakirwa kuwana kutonga. Ruzivo rwekumisikidza runodzokororwa pakati peCisco UCS Fabric Interconnects (FI) inopa mhinduro yekuwanikwa kwepamusoro. Kana imwe FI ikasawanikwa, imwe inotora. Kubatsirwa kwakakosha kweUCS Maneja ipfungwa ye Stateless Computing. Imwe neimwe node muHX Cluster haina seti yekumisikidza. MAC kero, UUIDs, firmware, uye BIOS marongero, kune example, ese akagadziridzwa paUCS Maneja muSevhisi Profile uye yakashandiswa zvakafanana kune ese maHX-Series maseva. Izvi zvinogonesa kurongeka kwakafanana uye nyore kushandisa zvakare. A new Service Profile inogona kushandiswa mukati memaminitsi mashoma.
Cisco HX Data Platform Cisco HX Data Platform is a hyperconverged software appliance that transforms Cisco servers into a single pool of compute and storage resources. It eliminates the need for network storage and tightly integrates with VMware vSphere and its existing management application to provide a seamless data management experience. In addition, native compression and deduplication reduce storage space occupied by the VMs. HX Data Platform is installed on a virtualized platform, such as vSphere. It manages the storage for your virtual machines, applications, and data. During installation, you specify the Cisco HyperFlex HX Cluster name, and Cisco HX Data Platform creates a hyperconverged storage cluster on each of the nodes. As your storage needs increase and you add nodes to the HX Cluster, Cisco HX Data Platform balances the storage across the additional resources.
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Cisco HyperFlex Batanidza Mushandisi Interface uye Online Rubatsiro
VMware vCenter Management
Cisco HyperFlex System ine VMware vCenter-yakavakirwa manejimendi. Iyo vCenter Server ndeye data centre management server application yakagadziridzwa kutarisa virtualized nharaunda. Iyo HX Data Platform inowanikwawo kubva kune preconfigured vCenter Server kuita mabasa ese ekuchengetedza. vCenter inotsigira akakosha ekuchengetera maficha seVMware vMotion, DRS, HA, uye vSphere replication. Zvimwe zvinowedzera, zvekuzvarwa HX Data Platform snapshots uye clones inotsiva VMware snapshots uye cloning kugona.
Iwe unofanirwa kuve nevCenter yakaiswa pane yakaparadzana sevha kuti uwane HX Data Platform. vCenter inowanikwa kuburikidza neVSphere Client, iyo inoiswa palaptop yemutungamiriri kana PC.
Cisco HyperFlex Batanidza Mushandisi Interface uye Online Rubatsiro
Cisco HyperFlex Connect (HX Connect) provides a user interface to Cisco HyperFlex. It is divided into two main sections, a Navigation pane on the left and a Work pane on the right.
Important To perform most actions in HX Connect, you must have administrative privileges.
Tafura 1: Header Icons
Icon
Zita
Menu
Tsanangudzo
Inochinja pakati peiyo yakazara saizi yeku Navigation pane uye icon-chete, hover-pamusoro peNavigation pane.
Messages Settings
Inoratidza runyoro rwezviito zvakatangwa nemushandisi; zve example, datastore created, disk removed. Use Clear All to remove all of the messages and hide the Messages icon.
Accesses Support, Notification, and Cloud Management settings. You can also access the Support Bundle page.
Alarms Help
Displays an alarm count of your current errors or warnings. If there are both errors and warnings, the count shows the number of errors. For more detailed alarm information, see the Alarms page.
Inovhura iyo inonzwisisika-inonzwisisa HX Batanidza Online Rubatsiro file.
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Cisco HyperFlex Batanidza Mushandisi Interface uye Online Rubatsiro
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Icon
Zita
Mushandisi
Description Accesses your configurations, such as timeout settings, and log out. User Settings is visible only to administrators.
Information Accesses more detailed data about that element.
To access the online help for: · A particular page in the user interface, click Help in the header. · A dialog box, click Help in that dialog box. · A wizard, click Help in that wizard.
Table Header Common Fields
Matafura akati wandei muHX Connect anopa imwe kana anopfuura eanotevera minda matatu anobata zvirimo zvinoratidzwa patafura.
UI Element Refresh field and icon
Ruzivo Rwakakosha
Iyo tafura inozorodzesa otomatiki kune zvine simba zvigadziriso kuHX Cluster. Nguvaamp inoratidza nguva yekupedzisira iyo tafura yakazorodzwa.
Dzvanya chiratidzo chedenderedzwa kuti uvandudze zvirimo izvozvi.
Filter field
Display in the table only list items that match the entered filter text. The items listed in the current page of the table below are automatically filtered. Nested tables are not filtered.
Type in the selection text in the Filter field.
To empty the Filter field, click the x.
Kuti utumire kunze zvirimo kubva kune mamwe mapeji ari patafura, skira pasi, tinya kuburikidza nenhamba dzepeji, uye isa sefa.
Export menu
Save a copy of the current page of table data. The table content is downloaded to the local machine in the selected file type. Kana zvinhu zvakanyorwa zvasefa, iyo yakasefa subset runyoro inotumirwa kunze.
Dzvanya museve wepasi kuti usarudze kutumira kunze file type. The file mhando sarudzo ndeidzi: cvs, xls, uye doc.
Kuti utumire kunze zvirimo kubva kune mamwe mapeji ari patafura, skira pasi, tinya kuburikidza nenhamba dzepeji, uye isa kutumira kunze.
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Dashboard Peji
Dashboard Peji
Important If you are a read-only user, you may not see all of the options available in the Help. To perform most actions in HyperFlex (HX) Connect, you must have administrative privileges.
Inoratidza chimiro chechidimbu cheHX yako yekuchengetedza cluster. Iri ndiro peji rekutanga raunoona paunopinda muCisco HyperFlex Batanidza.
UI Element Operational Status section
Ruzivo Rwakakosha
Inopa chimiro chekushanda cheHX kuchengetedza cluster uye kuita kwekushandisa.
Click Information ( ) to access the HX storage cluster name and status data.
Cluster License Status section
Inoratidza chinongedzo chinotevera paunopinda muHX yekuchengetedza cluster kekutanga kana kusvika HX yekuchengetedza cluster rezinesi yanyoreswa:
Cluster License not registered link–Appears when the HX storage cluster is not registered. To register a cluster license, click this link and provide product instance registration token in the Smart Software Licensing Product Registration screen. For more information on how to get a product instance registration token, refer the Registering a Cluster with Smart Licensing section in the Cisco HyperFlex Systems Installation Guide for VMware ESXi.
Beginning with HXDP Release 5.0(2a), HX Connect users with expired or insufficient licenses will be unable to access certain features or have limited feature functionality, for more information see License Compliance and Feature Functionality .
Resiliency Health section
Inopa iyo data hutano mamiriro uye kugona kweHX yekuchengetedza cluster kushivirira kutadza.
Click Information ( ) to access the resiliency status, and replication and failure data.
Capacity section
Inoratidza kupatsanurwa kwehuwandu hwekuchengetera maringe nehuwandu hwekuchengetera hunoshandiswa kana hwemahara.
Inoratidzawo kuchengetedza optimization, compression-savings, uye deduplication percentages kubva pane data yakachengetwa musumbu.
Nodes section
Inoratidza huwandu hwemanodhi muHX chengetedzo cluster, uye kupatsanurwa kwekuchinjika kunopesana nekombuta node. Kutenderera pamusoro peiyo node icon inoratidza iyo node zita, IP kero, node mhando, uye inopindirana kuratidzwa kwemadhisiki nekuwana kugona, mashandisiro, serial nhamba, uye disk type data.
VMs section
Displays the total number of VMs in the cluster as well as the breakdown of VMs by status (Powered on/off, Suspended, VMs with Snapshots and VMs with Snapshot Schedules).
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Bhokisi reKushanda Status Dialog
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UI Element Performance section
Cluster Time field
Essential Information Displays an HX storage cluster performance snapshot for a configurable amount of time, showing IOPS, throughput, and latency data. For full details, see Performance Page.
System date uye nguva ye cluster.
Table Header Common Fields
Matafura akati wandei muHX Connect anopa imwe kana anopfuura eanotevera minda matatu anobata zvirimo zvinoratidzwa patafura.
UI Element Refresh field and icon
Ruzivo Rwakakosha
Iyo tafura inozorodzesa otomatiki kune zvine simba zvigadziriso kuHX Cluster. Nguvaamp inoratidza nguva yekupedzisira iyo tafura yakazorodzwa.
Dzvanya chiratidzo chedenderedzwa kuti uvandudze zvirimo izvozvi.
Filter field
Display in the table only list items that match the entered filter text. The items listed in the current page of the table below are automatically filtered. Nested tables are not filtered.
Type in the selection text in the Filter field.
To empty the Filter field, click the x.
Kuti utumire kunze zvirimo kubva kune mamwe mapeji ari patafura, skira pasi, tinya kuburikidza nenhamba dzepeji, uye isa sefa.
Export menu
Save a copy of the current page of table data. The table content is downloaded to the local machine in the selected file type. Kana zvinhu zvakanyorwa zvasefa, iyo yakasefa subset runyoro inotumirwa kunze.
Dzvanya museve wepasi kuti usarudze kutumira kunze file type. The file mhando sarudzo ndeidzi: cvs, xls, uye doc.
Kuti utumire kunze zvirimo kubva kune mamwe mapeji ari patafura, skira pasi, tinya kuburikidza nenhamba dzepeji, uye isa kutumira kunze.
Bhokisi reKushanda Status Dialog
Inopa chimiro chekushanda cheHX kuchengetedza cluster uye kuita kwekushandisa.
UI Element Cluster Name field
Essential Information Name of this HX storage cluster.
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Resiliency Health Dialog Bhokisi
UI Element Cluster Status field
Ruzivo Rwakakosha
· Online–Cluster is ready.
· Offline–Cluster is not ready.
· Read Only–Cluster cannot accept write transactions, but can continue to display static cluster information.
· Out of space–Either the entire cluster is out of space or one or more disks are out of space. In both cases, the cluster cannot accept write transactions, but can continue to display static cluster information.
Data-at-rest encryption capable field
· Available · Not supported
Chikonzero view drop-down list
Alternatively, Yes and No can be used.
Displays the number of messages to explain what is contributing to the current status.
Click Close.
Resiliency Health Dialog Bhokisi
Inopa iyo data hutano mamiriro uye kugona kweHX yekuchengetedza cluster kushivirira kutadza.
Name Resiliency Status field
Description · Healthy–Cluster is healthy with respect to data and availability.
· Warning–Either data or cluster availability is being adversely affected.
· Unknown–Transitional state while the cluster is coming online.
Data Replication Compliance field Data Replication Factor field
Access Policy field
Ruvara coding uye zvidhori zvinoshandiswa kuratidza nzvimbo dzakasiyana siyana. Tinya chiratidzo kuti uratidze rumwe ruzivo.
· Compliant
Inoratidza huwandu hweadhindant data replicas pane iyo HX yekuchengetedza cluster.
Levels of data protection and data loss prevention. · Strict : Applies policies to protect against data loss. · Lenient : Applies policies to support longer storage cluster availability. This is the default.
Number of node failures tolerable Displays the number of node disruptions the HX storage cluster can
munda
kubata.
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Resiliency Health Dialog Bhokisi
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Name Number of Persistent Device failures tolerable field Number of Caching Device failures tolerable field Reason to view drop-down list
Click Close.
Tsanangudzo
Inoratidza huwandu hwekuramba kwechishandiso kukanganisa iyo HX yekuchengetedza cluster inogona kubata.
Inoratidza huwandu hwe cache mudziyo kukanganisa iyo HX yekuchengetedza cluster inogona kubata.
Displays the number of messages to explain what is contributing to the current status.
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