Hello Community,

I am certain some of you might have run in similar situations. We needed to shutdown the Fusion HCI due to a power maintenence. Some little detail was lost on the networking configuration - the portion where DHCP helper information was configured. When powering back up, nothing really happened, since without DHCP nothing will start. We were quite swiflty certain how to fix it, yet we needed someone to go to the rack and locally check the DHCP helper config on the highspeed switches.

My question is not about this issue, but was raised by this incident:

Do you have a little local jump host in the Fusion HCI rack to have a "emergency" access to the hardware management? I was thinking about installing a NUC with two interfaces, where the inward facing interface is connected to the 1G switch, while the other interface connects to the company network. What are your general thoughts about such a device?

kind regards
Konrad

@Konrad Trojok I agree with the scenario mentioned.

I've got two clients that have a jump server that is directly attached (cross-over Cat5 RJ45 cable) to port 47 of one of the management switches. We have used this method as a means to remotely install Fusion HCI. This also serves as a method to avoid visit to the DC or long periods of activity within the DC during troubleshooting unless there is some physical intervention required.

Hello Community,

I am certain some of you might have run in similar situations. We needed to shutdown the Fusion HCI due to a power maintenence. Some little detail was lost on the networking configuration - the portion where DHCP helper information was configured. When powering back up, nothing really happened, since without DHCP nothing will start. We were quite swiflty certain how to fix it, yet we needed someone to go to the rack and locally check the DHCP helper config on the highspeed switches.

My question is not about this issue, but was raised by this incident:

Do you have a little local jump host in the Fusion HCI rack to have a "emergency" access to the hardware management? I was thinking about installing a NUC with two interfaces, where the inward facing interface is connected to the 1G switch, while the other interface connects to the company network. What are your general thoughts about such a device?

kind regards
Konrad

Hello Community,

I am certain some of you might have run in similar situations. We needed to shutdown the Fusion HCI due to a power maintenence. Some little detail was lost on the networking configuration - the portion where DHCP helper information was configured. When powering back up, nothing really happened, since without DHCP nothing will start. We were quite swiflty certain how to fix it, yet we needed someone to go to the rack and locally check the DHCP helper config on the highspeed switches.

My question is not about this issue, but was raised by this incident:

Do you have a little local jump host in the Fusion HCI rack to have a "emergency" access to the hardware management? I was thinking about installing a NUC with two interfaces, where the inward facing interface is connected to the 1G switch, while the other interface connects to the company network. What are your general thoughts about such a device?

kind regards
Konrad