I recently had access to four Dell VxRail E560F nodes and wanted to see if I could repurpose them for a Nutanix AHV lab environment. This is not intended as a supported production design, but as a practical lab exercise for reusing existing hardware.
First, we need to convert the VxRail node to an ordinary PowerEdge server. Please see this link for more information: Changing a Dell VxRail Identity
Continue readingThis article provides a quick overview of the steps I used to convert a former Dell VxRail node back into a standard Dell PowerEdge server. The objective was to remove the VxRail-specific configuration and identity, allowing the system to operate as a regular PowerEdge host for lab use and workloads unrelated to VMware or vSAN.
The server used in this example was a Dell VxRail E560F, which needed to be rebranded and restored to its original Dell PowerEdge R640 identity.
Disclamer: Remember that changing the identity and firmware baseline of former appliance hardware may have service / support implications.
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I recently ran into the above problem with a customer while trying to upgrade ESXi from Prism interface. The KB6470 Mentioned that it might be related to the ESXi scratch partition not having enough available space. But that wasn’t the issue here.
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