Author: Jeremy Merrill

Jeremy Merrill is part of the VxSEALs team at Dell EMC. The team itself is part of the VxRail and VxRack SDDC Business Unit - focused on driving Dell EMC HCI solutions while leveraging VMware vSAN Technology. The views expressed are mine and not that of my employer.

VxRail Upgrades – now with vLCM

Over the summer of 2021, VxRail added quite a bit of new features around the LCM functionality in the VxRail 7.0.240 release. In addition to vLCM integration with VxRail Manager, which we'll talk about, we also added "Configuration Drift Reporting" and "Advisory Reports". Both those reports are beneficial in making sure your VxRail system is … Continue reading VxRail Upgrades – now with vLCM →

VxRail 7.0.13x – Networking Flexibility

One of the biggest changes we've added to the VxRail 7.0 code release is around the networking. In previous VxRail releases, we could only guarantee the Network Daughter Card (NDC) would be installed in the system. That lead us to only configuring the NDC for "System Traffic" (Management, vSAN, vMotion) and then the PCIe NICs … Continue reading VxRail 7.0.13x – Networking Flexibility →

VxRail 4.7.300 – VxRail Manager Physical View Now Integrated into vCenter

As I mentioned in my previous post about 4.7.300 being released, one of the things I'm happy to see is the integration of the VxRail Manager physical view into the vCenter HTML5 client.  In the past, this used to be a link and launch into another tab.  It looked like this:   That view would … Continue reading VxRail 4.7.300 – VxRail Manager Physical View Now Integrated into vCenter →