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:

Highly Critical vSAN defects RESOLVED as per: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/88870

Feature Enhancements

• LCM – More efficient solution to address nodes that fail to enter maintenance mode.
• RP4VM – VxRail checks whether RP4VM will support target VxRail version.
• VxRail Dynamic nodes support NVMe over TCP.
• Customers can deploy their dynamic node clusters with locally VxRail-managed vCenter Server.
• Automating STIG rules for more secure VxRail.
• VxRail 7.0.400 expands the number of NIC ports that can be used in a base network configuration while using dynamic link aggregation. In this release, 6 and 8 NIC ports can be used.
• VxRail users will now be able to do Fully Qualified Domain Name change to the ESXi host.
• Throttle traffic between edge cluster and vCenter Server.
• Customers can now submit service request ticket on-demand from VxRail Manager UI or VxRail API.
• vVOLs Day 1 workflow option for dynamic nodes – Support for dynamic nodes with vVols as primary storage instead of just for secondary storage.
• Support for customer-managed VMware VDS on the VxRail satellite node
• Decouple VxRail Manager and VxRail Manager system version build numbering​.
• One-click Self-signed Cert Update for VxRail Manager.
• Provides support for converting VxRail-managed VMware VDS to a customer-managed VMware VDS.
• Starting in VxRail 7.0.400, in addition to IP addresses, VxRail Manager will support entering the URL of an NTP pool.
• Starting in VxRail 7.0.400, the vSphere HA isolation address(es) can be input into VxRail Manager during the initial build process.

For a more comprehensive list please refer to the Release Notes!