Workflow Templates for Daily: DCS Daily

Check Triggered Alarms in vCenter and Investigate

You can get a consolidated view of all the vCenter alarms by clicking on the "Alarms" tab at the bottom left hand corner of vSphere Client

Check for any Disabled Alarm Actions in vCenter and UCS Call Home

This info is available under the "Alarm Actions State Report (vSphere and UCS)" Tab of the daily health report @ http://dcsaklmgmt1.dcs.local

HA and DRS Settings on Clusters

This info is available under the "Clusters with HA/DRS Turned Off" Tab of the daily health report @ http://dcsaklmgmt1.dcs.local

AK Cisco DPAY 1, WLG Cisco DPAY 1 and HLZ Cisco BYOL 4 should be there as Partially Automated for DRS.
No other Clusters should be listed

Check for any VMFS Datastores that have had SIOC disabled

This info is available under the "Datastores with Storage I/O Control Disabled" Tab of the daily health report @ http://dcsaklmgmt1.dcs.local

Check for any VMs with SDRS Disabled and Re-Enable

This info is available under the "VMs With SDRS Disabled" Tab of the daily health report @ http://dcsaklmgmt1.dcs.local

Check for any lingering VM Snapshots or VM's that need Disk Consolidation

This info is available under the "VMs With One or More Snapshots" & "VMs that need Consolidation" Tab of the daily health report @ http://dcsaklmgmt1.dcs.local

Check dvSwitch backups runnning

You would have received an email with Subject "dvSwitch Backups Completed", check the log file in that email.

Zombie Files Check

This info is available under the "Zombie Files" Tab of the daily health report @ http://dcsaklmgmt1.dcs.local

Make sure the file / folder is safe to delete and Remove the files.

Check for SDRS recommendations

Check the recommendations and apply them as required:

1) Before applying balance datastore space usage alerts please check the SDRS cluster view, if all Datastores are 80% or less utilized then we can simply clear this alert.

2) Some (not all) affinity rules are purposely violated to avoid large disks bursting too hight within the same Datastore etc.

3) Before applying balance datastore I/O workload, please check that it's not suggesting to separate VMDK's that currently reside within the same datastore for burst performance. Other than this, all I/O workload balance rules should be applied (as long as they are not going to fill up the datastore over 80%).

BYOL VMs - Not in DRS Groups

Please put the appropriate VM's into their related groups.

Check Portal Reconciliation Report

Log into Portal, go into an ORG that you have admin access to and run the Inventory Differences Report. Check for any VMs that are in vSphere but not in Portal and vice versa. Ignore any network/portgroup mismatch entries.

Check DCS Admin Mailbox - Veeam Folder for any problem emails

Check VBR Configuration Backup has been successful by logging into VBR Console from AKLRDS3

Talk to Elsa or Sam D initially to understand how this works

Check Spectrum > Datacom Cloud Services - DCS for alerts and log or clear as required.

Please login to Spectrum(see keepass for details) and check the "Datacom Cloud Services - DCS All Devices" for any alarms.

Please action or log an incident in R12 and clear the alerts.

Note: Recommend using the java console (start console) rather than the web client.

Check Spectrum > Datacom Cloud Services - DCS for any brown or maintenance mode = yes devices

Please also help to check for any brown(maintenance mode = yes) devices under each of the DC's. - you can take a device out of maintenance mode by clicking on the device then under the information tab, change "In Maintenance" to "No".

Check ZVM> Investigate VPG and Site issues and log it to RAAS Customers if suspected onpremise issues

Zerto Virtual Manager (access from Jump server)

From each URL below click Dashboard and check for any issues. If there are no issues then bottom left will report SITE IS OK)

For detail on any issues Click Monitoring Tab from each of those ZVMs.

For any issues with RAAS customers for their on premise use contacts from this spreadsheet for Customer Escalation (Scroll under Zerto columns): https://www.onedatacom.com/client/Datacom/DCS%20Internal/Customer%20Folders%20(DCS%20Sales)/_Customer%20List/Customer%20Listing%20Updated.xlsx

Note: All alerts can be checked via Zerto Cloud Manager as well DCSZCM1 - https://dcszcm1.dcs.local:9989 (See ALERTS from menu or top right if there's any alerts in red)

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DCS Daily - Compute

vSphere & UCS

Portal

VEEAM

SPECTRUM

ZERTO

BACKUPS

Daily Diff Check: Check for any Failed Backups - Watch out for Time Since Last Backup

Investigate any Backups that failed more than once or have a pattern

Check Tape Libraries and any Tape Requirements

Check Replication Status

Check DataDomain Capacity and Cleaning Schedule and investigate any Alerts

Check all Tape Libraries have Cleaning Tapes and 10+ cleans remaining (if not please order more)

Weekly/Monthly Backups Check: check for any failed backups that have not been re-run successfully

Use this template in Manifestly