Tag: vxRail

Upgrading VXrail 4.7.5xx to 7.0.x

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 ... Read More

Upgrade EMC/Dell VxRail Best Practices (4.7.100 to 4.7.301)

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 ... Read More

New to Me: VxRail Network Validation Tool

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 ... Read More

How to add Physical Disks to EMC’s VxRail Hyper-converged Solution

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 ... Read More

PSA: Purple Screen of Death when collecting logs on VxRail Cluster

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 ... Read More