Upgrading VXrail 4.7.5xx to 7.0.x
Today I am upgrading a customer VXRail environment. The 4.7 platform is almost End Of Life so it's important to upgrade before there are any issues with support.…
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Upgrade EMC/Dell VxRail Best Practices (4.7.100 to 4.7.301)
Time for another VXRail upgrade post! This time we are upgrading from VxRail 4.7.100-11859441 to 4.7.301-26249014. This will bring the underlying vSphere environment up to version 6.7 Update…
New to Me: VxRail Network Validation Tool
If you are deploying VxRail solutions, you might want to check out the new release of the Network Validation Tool from EMC. The NVT-VxRail tool will allow you…
How to add Physical Disks to EMC’s VxRail Hyper-converged Solution
Sometimes the easiest looking things can be ‘not so easy’, if you don’t know where to look. Adding physical hard drives to a VxRail array seems like it…
PSA: Purple Screen of Death when collecting logs on VxRail Cluster
This is probably just an edge case but I figured I would put it out there into the `webs so admins are aware. While troubleshooting an unrelated VxRail…
Upgrading VxRail from 4.5.227 to 4.7.100–One Click operations by EMC/DELL
Today I upgraded my VxRail from 4.5.227-106353364 to 4.7.100-11859441. Here is a breakdown of the process so you can see what to expect with this upgrade. Even though…
Missing EMC VxRail nodes; VMware vCenter blissfully unaware.
I logged into my VxRail manager today and found the Overall System Health to be Critical. Yikes! While digging into the Health tab, the VXRAIL manager thinks that…
EMC VxRail Deployment Screens
Recently had the opportunity to roll out a new VxRail deployment so I wanted to capture some of the set up and deployment screens. For the VxRail, most…