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Health Check

•  Performs regular health checks for HCI to ensure stable and secure business operations.

•  Checks HCI for missing SPs to ensure that critical SPs are installed to fix potential vulnerabilities.

•  Exports health check reports in .docx format, makes necessary revisions, and uses the updated reports to report health check results.

•  Checks if the configuration ensures best practice performance of HCI after installation to avoid extensive manual confirmation, which is time-wasting and prone to omissions.

•  Checks the environments before and after an upgrade of HCI to ensure a smooth upgrade.

•  Verifies that the online update service is properly configured.

•  Verifies that SPs are installed for HCI when it is disconnected from the Internet.

•  Exports health check reports in .pptx format.

•  Checks the group tags of critical VMs before running a health check to enhance the monitoring of their health status.

Toolkit

1. Sangfor HCI Installation

You can use this tool to install HCI on multiple servers at a time via a Layer 2 network.

2. Disk Cleanup

You can use this tool to clean up key directories of HCI and files.

3. Interface Reordering

You can use this tool to adjust the interface order after HCI is reinstalled on aServer.

4. Patch Validation Removal

You can use this tool to accurately identify SPs or custom packages that cause an upgrade failure and skip their validation.

5. IPMI Password Change

You can use this tool to obtain and modify the IPMI password of servers.

6. Sangfor Installer

You can use this tool to install agents of security components for HCI and SCP to ensure installation security.

7. Admin Password Encryption

You can provide the password of an HCI administrator to generate an encrypted password.

8. HCI Cluster Shrink

You can use this tool to shrink a cluster or a virtual datastore.

9. Allow SSD

You can obtain the latest online SSD whitelist, which indicates the compatible SSDs for the current HCI version and server type.

This ensures that your SSDs support virtual datastore creation, and enhances overall business reliability by preventing business interruptions due to SSD incompatibility after virtual datastore creation.

10. Burn-in Test

You can use this tool to check the online status and health of the hardware of HCI nodes before delivery.

11. Patch Application

You can use this tool to restart HCI services, so that relevant SPs can take effect.

12. HCI Logs and Configuration Collection

You can use this tool to quickly collect and download HCI logs within a specified period for troubleshooting purposes.

13. License Info

You can use this tool to collect the existing license information with ease to ensure that the new license matches the current one and avoid errors due to manual collection.

14. Pre-sales Selection

You can use this tool to quickly compare and evaluate various product specifications and solutions based on the analysis of product specifications, performance, reliability, cost, and user feedback. You can then receive recommended product solutions that best match your requirements. It helps you quickly find the most suitable product solutions before you place an order, thus improving work efficiency and reducing unnecessary errors and waste.

15. aDeploy Logs Collection

You can use this tool to collect logs from aDeploy running on your local system and operation logs under the aDeploy directory on HCI. If you're not logged in, you can only collect logs from aDeploy running on your local system.

16. Performance Diagnostics

You can use this automated tool to troubleshoot performance issues, keeping nodes and VMs running with best practice configuration. This tool checks the usage and performance of full-stack resources, from vCPU cores to nodes, and performs system health and performance diagnostics.

17. Hardware Troubleshooting

You can troubleshoot hardware issues using this tool which supports specifying parameters.

Pre-change Check

1. Pre-upgrade Check

a. Check for HCI upgrade path

Before an upgrade, you can use this feature to obtain the recommended target version and the best upgrade path.

b. HCI pre-upgrade check and pre-upgrade package installation

You can check whether the environment supports an HCI upgrade without disrupting business operations, and then install the pre-upgrade package to ensure no errors occur during the upgrade and mitigate risks in advance.

2. Pre-patch Check

You can use this feature to check whether the cluster to be upgraded meets the SP installation requirements, such as adequate disk space and the absence of residual files in directories.

3. Pre-expansion Check

When you want to add a node to a cluster, you can use this feature to check the health status of the node and the cluster. When you want to add a disk to a datastore, you can use this feature to check the health status of the disk and the datastore.

4. Pre-replacement Check for Disks

When you want to replace a disk of a datastore, you can use this feature to check the health status of the new disk and the datastore.

5. Pre-replacement Check for Nodes

When you want to replace a node of a cluster, you can use this feature to check the health status of the cluster and the new node.

Feedback

You can give feedback on and rate HCI, SCP, and aDeploy based on your experience.