Virtualization & Storage
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5 PART 6 PART 7 PART 8 This is the 6th in a series of posts covering VCF 5.2.1 On VxRail 8.0.310. The following post provides an example walkthrough covering the […]
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5 PART 6 PART 7 PART 8 This is the 5th in a series of posts covering VCF 5.2.1 On VxRail 8.0.310. The following post provides an example walkthrough covering the […]
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5 PART 6 PART 7 PART 8 This is the 4th in a series of posts covering VCF 5.2.1 On VxRail 8.0.310. The following post provides an example walkthrough covering the […]
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5 PART 6 PART 7 PART 8 This post provides a detailed guide on deploying VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle in VCF mode as part of a […]
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5 PART 6 PART 7 PART 8 This is the second post in a series exploring VCF 5.2.1 on VxRail 8.0.310. This detailed guide walks you […]
The Compliance Drift Report helps identify when VxRail components are no longer at the recommended version. This process reviews all sub-components within the cluster, providing a detailed summary of their […]
Note: this is an example for reference only please use the VxRail installation procedures & services provided by Dell. PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 PART 5 PART 6 PART 7 PART […]
LCM Modes in VxRail: Enhancement in Version 8.0.300: Starting with VxRail version 8.0.300, users can select their preferred LCM mode (Legacy LCM or vLCM) during first setup. Eliminates the need […]
Starting with VCF 5.2, VMware enforced a minimum 15-character password length for both Cloud-Builder (admin/root) & SDDC Manager (root/vcf). VMware enforced this change as part of STIG compliance for Photon […]
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2.1.1 on Dell VxRail 8.0.311 is now GA (Generally Available) as of December 5th 2024. Dell Technologies and VMware are thrilled to announce the General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2.1. This release introduces new features and enhancements, including support for in-place upgrades to VCF 5.2.1.1 from existing VCF 5.2 and higher environments, and most notably support for vSAN […]
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2.1 on Dell VxRail 8.0.310 is now GA (Generally Available) as of October 24th 2024. Dell Technologies and VMware are thrilled to announce the General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2.1. Building on our strong partnership, this announcement marks a significant milestone. This release supports ESXi 8.0 U3b and vCenter Server 8.0 U3c, and introduces several new […]
Quick Tip The vxrail-primary command is used to configure VxRail Manager on Day 0 before its initial run. Previously, this was a binary command accessible through the system path. However, […]
Beginning with VCF 4.4, SSH is disabled by default on all ESXi hosts to minimize security risks. However, if there is an external dependency requiring SSH access to ESXi hosts, […]
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 on Dell VxRail 8.0.300 is now GA (Generally Available) as of August 29th 2024. Building on our strong partnership, Dell Technologies and VMware are thrilled to announce the General Availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 on Dell VxRail 8.0.300. This release supports ESXi 8.0 U3 and vCenter Server 8.0 U3a, and introduces several new features and […]
VxVerify – Pre-upgrade Health Check Tool A previous edition of this post demonstrated a VxRail system running code version 7.0.100 using VxVerify 3.x which can be found here. In this […]
During an upgrade if a host fails to enter maintenance mode, VxRail Manager will skip the upgrade process on that host and continue to upgrade the next host in the […]
VxRail release 8.0.210 introduced the ability to change the iDRAC root user password via the VxRail plug-in. Log in to the VMware vSphere Web Client as an administrator & click […]
In this 2 part series I will provide an example walk-thru upgrade of: VCF 5.1 (VxRail 8.0.200) -> 5.1.1 upgrade (VxRail 8.0.210) Part 1 covered upgrading the management domain. In […]
Note: this is an example for reference only please use the VxRail installation procedures & services provided by Dell. PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 This is the 4th in […]
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1.1 on Dell VxRail 8.0.210 is now GA (Generally Available) as of March 26th 2024. This is the first VCF release to support VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA for AI workloads within the VMware Cloud Foundation ecosystem. The collaboration with NVIDIA provides optimized support for AI and machine learning tasks, leveraging NVIDIA’s specialized hardware for accelerated […]
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