As mentioned in the previous post, there are some deployments where customers would like slightly more control over their upgrades with VxRail. While the automation we've built into our minimal click (it's not quite one click, but it's also not 10) upgrade process, there are some that don't want/need the upgrade to be fully automated. … Continue reading VxRail Upgrades and Controlling VM Actions – Part 2 – Leveraging DRS Settings
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VxRail Upgrades and Controlling VM Actions – Part 1 – VM Affinity Rules
Most of the time, our customers will let a VxRail upgrade progress as detailed in this post or to 4.7 in this post. While that will work for 95% of our customers, there are some use cases where the customer has some specific requirements for VMs to remain on a single node (and possibly be the … Continue reading VxRail Upgrades and Controlling VM Actions – Part 1 – VM Affinity Rules
VxRail 4.7.000 Upgrade Walk Through
With VxRail 4.7.000 being released today for VxRail upgrades, I wanted to walk through part of the process. First, ALWAYS check SolVe for the procedure to run the upgrade in your environment. It will provide the detailed procedure you need to follow for this upgrade. For the upgrade, I downloaded the file locally and then did … Continue reading VxRail 4.7.000 Upgrade Walk Through
VxRail 4.7.000 Posted to Web (Upgrades)
I'm happy to announce that VxRail 4.7.000 has now been posted to the web. This update will allow our VxRail customers to upgrade their existing clusters to vSphere 6.7 EP5 (we waited for this patch release versus just going with U1). We've been busy getting VxRail 4.7 ready with a ton of development and testing. … Continue reading VxRail 4.7.000 Posted to Web (Upgrades)
VxRail Manager Walk Through
One of the most powerful tools created between the Dell EMC and VMware joint engineering of the VxRail solution is VxRail Manager. The first thing to note is VxRail Manager wasn't created to present a new management pane for daily tasks. We've realized that our customers know how to use vCenter and we don't want … Continue reading VxRail Manager Walk Through