Nimble deployment R8E93A - HOE NS dHCI w/ ADD CUST ESXi 7.0 FIO SW is missing

[Ahmed_Hassan_Ha]

Good day HPE support,

Actually we are facing issue,

Proliant servers cant be added to the Vcenter in nimble solution,

We are using the default passwords but Nimble Vcenter it still not adding the Proliant automatically,
giving us that error 

So we tried to add it manually 
it still giving us this error 

so we are facing this error we believe it refer to  license related issue,
as originally the Proliant came already with empty, harddisks without any EXSi or license,
so we did the custom ESXI installation m,manually,

but we still missing the license

Thank you HPE support please 
advice & support
 

[giladzzz]

Hi

it looks you are doing a brownfield installation what you should do is

1) Install ESXI to which ever version I want.

2) Define "final" IP addresses FQDN DNS NTP etc.

3) Enable SSH.

4) Install NCM

5) Install Vcenter on one of the servers local disks.

6) create my Cluster ( with out any shared DataStore).

7) Create ISCSI vSwitches for connection to Nimble.

You run DHCI wizard and define this is an existing vcenter with existing cluster.

9) overcome any rejects the wizard gives.

10) after another 15 minutes the DHCI cluster is up an running.

it is also an easy way to configure your servers even if they come pre-installed

you should remember that DHCI wizard changes the ESXI root password to Nimble default "Prostack123!"

even if you started with a different password so after installation through the DHCI plugin you shouls set your own root password.

Regards

Give a KUDO if this helps

[Ahmed_Hassan_Ha]

Thank you  Giladzzz 
Actually, it is green nimble installation DHCI 2.0
actually i am facing SCM installation & then NCM issues now,
I will go through it  but SCM my issue now,

thank you for the amazing support dear 

best luck 

[giladzzz]

Hi

if you are adding a new server to an existing DHCI cluster

you must install it according to the Matrix

https://infosight.hpe.com/org/c4c4fbb7-6bb3-47c2-9996-d219b9dde818/resources/nimble/validated-configuration-matrix 

you just need to install ESXI HPE custom image and nimble connection manager and enable SSH

connection to server.

then follow the wizard.

Nimble support are very helpfull if you have support don't hesitate to call them.

Regards