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VxRail 7.0.400 GA September 2022 This is a feature packed release! Future posts will highlight some of these features but for now here is a snippet. VxRail 7.0.400 BOM 7.0.400 release BOM includes the following updates: VxRail System 7.0.400 build 27701512 VxRail Manager 7.0.400 build 27701512 VxRail Manager vCenter Plugin 9.1.0.0 VMware ESXi 7.0 U3g build 20328353 VMware vCenter Server […]
When performing a local offline upgrade of VxRAIL you will need to download the required upgrade composite bundle(s) from dell.com/support/ to complete your upgrade as guided by the associated VxRail SolVe procedure. There is no need to load the software composite file locally when performing an Internet-connected upgrade – The upgrade file(s) is automatically downloaded from Dell online. When performing […]
Encountered the following error whilst performing an upgrade from VCF 4.4 TO 4.4.1.1: The following KB provided the fix in this case: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/77551 Issue resolved:
As part of security hardening VMware removed bash shell history in SDDC Manager from VCF 4.3 onwards. You can simply enable history for an open session by issuing the following […]
Over time there may be a build-up of downloaded bundles which can consume a lot of space on the SDDC Manager bundle repo. In this case during an upgrade Pre-Check […]
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4.1 on Dell VxRail 7.0.371 is now available. The following is a list of all the components and their versions as per VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4.1. Security Update: VCF 4.4.1 On VxRail 7.0.371 includes the following security bug fixes (DSA Site): DSA-2022-084 DSA-2022-056 DSA-2021-255 Some other notable highlights of this VCF 4.4.1 release include: New VxRail LCM logic improvements New […]
Link Layer Data Protocol (LLDP) can be enabled from the vSphere Distributed Switch in vCenter as follows: Log in to vCenter and select the Networking tab and right-click the vDS. Navigate to Settings and […]
If you receive the following alert in vCenter then some BIOS Security settings may need to be configured which I will detail below: Detailed information from VMware in relation to […]
PART1 PART2 PART3 PART4 The VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager automates the LCM of the vRealize Suite. It must be deployed before any vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, or vRealize Automation components can be deployed. The vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager contains the functional elements that collaborate to orchestrate the LCM operations of the vRealize Suite environment. vRLCM VM is deployed […]
PART1 PART2 PART3 This is the fourth in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.4. The following detailed post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of deploying a NSX-T Edge nodes into the VI Workload Domain using the SDDC automation. The end result of this example build is that of a single site VCF on VxRail solution including a single NSX-T VI Workload Domain (thanks to @HeagaSteve for the architectural […]
PART1 PART2 This is the third in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.4. The following detailed post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of deploying a VI Workload Domain using the Workflow Optimization […]
Part1: https://davidring.ie/2022/03/04/vcf-on-vxrail-4-4-walkthrough-part1-bring-up/ This is the second in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.4. The following detailed post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of: Deploying a NSX-T Edge Cluster […]
This is the first in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.4. The following detailed post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of: Deploying a VxRail Management Workload Domain cluster […]
The following provides a method of cleaning out unwanted bundles from SDDC Manager. Firstly browse to the Bundle section on SDDC UI, select the bundle you wish to remove and click view details: From here you can gather the Bundle ID which is required by the bundle cleanup utility: At this point it is good practice to take a snapshot […]
In this scenario I upgraded from 3.10 to 3.11 in advance of deploying vRSLCM; this required me to reset feature.vcf.avn.freenfield to status of ‘true’:
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4 on Dell VxRail 7.0.320 is now available. The following is a list of all the components and their versions as per VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4. Security Update: VCF 4.4 On VxRail 7.0.320 includes the critical Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability fixes. Some other notable highlights of this VCF 4.4 release include: vRealize LCM initiated from vRSLCM […]
This is a known issue and documented in the release notes: ‘If bring-up fails when deploying the second Platform Services Controller (psc-2), retrying bring-up will fail with the error Failed to apply default vSAN policy. The cause is that the original deployment of psc-2 was not removed from the vCenter Server inventory.’ Release notes: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/3.10/rn/vmware-cloud-foundation-on-dell-emc-vxrail-18-release-notes.html The workaround as per detailed in […]
Issue: NSX Datacenter license used in parameter xls was expired, resulting in a failure during bring-up. Rather than rolling back the bring-up I edited the NSX lic entry in postgres […]
The definition of a VxRail Dynamic node: ‘VxRail systems that are compute-only nodes used to form a vSphere cluster.’ This essentially means that a VxRail Dynamic node cluster relies on having external storage acting as primary. Support for HCI Mesh and FC based external storage compute-only clusters was introduced as part of the VxRail 7.0.240 release. These compute-only ESXi VxRail […]
One method of consuming the available VxRail APIs is by leveraging the VxRail API PowerShell Modules Package from within your Windows OS using PowerShell. Each public API has a corresponding […]
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