This one was not something I was working on myself, but I got this from a customer of mine. The problem was and the customer could not choose several of their Azure Local custom locations for deployment of new virtual machines. Running this command can tell us status on the custom location: If it shows …
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Azure Local – CPU reservations on virtual machines
Some application vendors require a CPU core reservation to be configured. However, this configuration can conflict with pre-update health checks. It you encounter this error during updates, remove the CPU reservations: Below you can see a picture of an active reservation. This number should be set to 0 while updating happens. You can use PowerShell …
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Azure Local – UpgradeArbAndExtensions – arcappliance upgrade failed – line 3345 at UpgradeArbAndExtensionsInternal
The error Intro I was updating an Azure Local Stack from 11.2509 to 11.2510. Doing the update, I hit an issue about the MOC ARB update. The error above is not very helpful, but I found better information in these logs: “\NODE01\C$\ClusterStorage\Infrastructure_1\Shares\SU1_Infrastructure_1\MocArb\WorkingDirectory\CloudStore\log\agent-log-2692″ Showed that one of the nodes was not responding on port 45000 (not …
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Azure Local – AzStackHci Environment Checker
This is just a very small article about some cool things about the environment checker for Azure Local. I have used it multiple times for troubleshooting scenarios, that did not involve deployment (this tool is mainly for validation in the deployment phase). Microsoft Learn article about this tool: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-local/manage/use-environment-checker?view=azloc-2510&tabs=connectivity If you get errors on pre-update …
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Azure Local – Exception caught in Test-AzStackHciArcIntegration validator
Intro Below are a few different steps I have got from working with Microsoft Support while we did several troubleshooting sessions on an Azure Local Stack that could not update from 2507 to 2510 (25398 OS level). The error Error from “Get-SolutionUpdate” Health Results: Title : Environment Validator ExceptionStatus : …
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Azure Local – create alert rules using code (IaC)
If you want to deploy any alert rules to multiple Azure Local Stacks, it is very time consuming because you would have to create the same alert rules for each Azure Local Stack. But using Infrastructure as Code, it is possible to overcome this. This guide is not a complete deployment of all recommended alert …
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Azure Local – MOC update prechecks failed
Error in portal and Powershell doing pre-check health of solution update (after pre-check doing prepare had already executed without further errors): Title : MOC Update Precheck TestStatus : FAILURESeverity : CRITICALDescription : MOC update prechecks failed, failed test count: 1Remediation : Please check MOC update precheck failure details, fix those errors, and re-run Update Readiness. …
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Azure Local – Troubleshoot missing log collection
If you come across an Azure Local stack where you do not see anything in the Insights overview, it can be because of multiple things. Microsoft source article for reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/azure/azure-local/manage/monitor-hci-single?tabs=22h2-and-later#troubleshoot-clusters-registered-before-november-2023 Then you go to Monitoring > Insights on your Azure Local instance in Azure: And see that it is configured but not showing anything: …
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Azure Local – Enable Remote Desktop (RDP)
It is recommended to keep RDP disabled, but sometimes we need RDP access (e.g. troubleshooting around failed updates that require manual install of patches or modules). Here is how to enable RDP via PowerShell Remoting from another device in the same domain (Requires access from the source server to the target server on the network): …
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Azure Local – MOC ARB update failed doing solution upgrade
I got this from Microsoft Premium Support. I was working on a Azure Local stack that would not update the MOC ARB to latest version doing the solution update. We ended up skipping the update from the solution update so the rest of the solution update would pass and then work on the MOC ARB …
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