VxRail Upgrades and Controlling VM Actions – Part 2 – Leveraging DRS Settings

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 →

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 – Code Upgrade Details

One of the most compelling reasons we see success with VxRail is around the life-cycle management (LCM) of the system. From the VxRail side of the house, we provide our customers with a "composite package". Inside the composite package are various files that are used to update the cluster. The entire update process is automated … Continue reading VxRail – Code Upgrade Details →