Scenario

•  Configuration check after HCI installation.

•  SP check on HCI.

•  Pre-upgrade and post-upgrade health check of HCI.

•  Routine health check of HCI.

Steps

1. On the Health Check page, select HCI as the platform type and enter the cluster information. If NAT is used, enter the corresponding port numbers, and then click Basic Health Check.

2. The following figure shows a health check in progress.

3. When the health check is complete, the health check result is displayed, as shown in the following figure. The status of health check entities is distinguished by colors. Green indicates a normal entity, yellow indicates an alert, and red indicates a fault. You can click a check entity to view the details. You can click Download Report in the upper-right corner to download the health check report in .docx format, or select other formats, such as .pptx. You can click Download Resource Report to get detailed HCI resource information.

4. aDeploy supports full health checks for clusters. You can enter the cluster information, and then click Full Health Check. The following page appears, where you can select critical VMs to ensure that they run with best practice configuration and reliability on HCI. You are advised to select VMs that host relational databases. If you do not need to check VMs, select Skip in the lower-left corner. If you need to check VMs, select the VMs as needed and start the check. Their group names are used as their group tags in the check.

5. aDeploy supports custom health checks. You can enter the cluster information on the Health Check page, and then click Custom Health Check. On the page that appears, select check entities as needed, and then start the health check.

6. On the bottom right corner of the inspection homepage, you can access the historical reports. By clicking the "Collect Information and Report" button on the top right corner, you can export, import, and upload the compressed package of the collected inspection information. In the offline aDeploy environment, you can export the collected compressed package and then import it into the online aDeploy environment for uploading.