I'm happy to announce that both 4.7.110 and 4.5.310 have been released and posted to the support site. These are two critical releases for customers running 4.7.100 and 4.5.300 code as this version resolves an issue as documented in DTA 531166. Once we were alerted of a potential issue, we did pull 4.7.100 and 4.5.300 … Continue reading VxRail 4.7.110 and 4.5.310 released
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 4.7.110 – Adding a Node with VxRail Manager Plugin – New Feature
As I mentioned in this post, we've added the ability to deploy the cluster using "advanced" host names for your VxRail nodes. This feature was added in 4.7.100 and carries over to when you're adding nodes to a cluster. If you had your cluster installed with advanced host names, you will be required to provide … Continue reading VxRail 4.7.110 – Adding a Node with VxRail Manager Plugin – New Feature
VxRail 4.7.110 – New Feature – Advanced Host Naming
One of the things that's a huge benefit to customers is the ability to deploy the cluster very easily as well as scale the cluster by adding nodes. In order to achieve a repeatable process, we had been using a naming structure that would iterate the host names by an integer. Over the last 3 … Continue reading VxRail 4.7.110 – New Feature – Advanced Host Naming
VxRail 4.7.110 – vCenter, now with VxRail Manager inside!
Today is a great day! We released VxRail 4.7.100 code, which is based on vSphere 6.7 EP6, but more importantly, it's also the first version that supports the vCenter plugin. The plugin will allow customers to administer their VxRail clusters without leaving vCenter. In order to first get all the updates, I had to upgrade … Continue reading VxRail 4.7.110 – vCenter, now with VxRail Manager inside!
IPv6 Multicast (Loudmouth) Changes in VxRail 4.7
In a previous post about changes made to the first run/install of a VxRail cluster running our 4.7 code, I made mention that we've now moved the IPv6 Multicast traffic (also known as "Loudmouth") to leverage a private network. This will help us in a few ways, but one of the main reasons for the … Continue reading IPv6 Multicast (Loudmouth) Changes in VxRail 4.7
