VxRail - vxCoronado

Upgrading to VxRail 7.0.200

This wednesday 5/5/2021 was RTW (Released to Web) the latested VxRail software 7.0.200 that came with new enhancements like:

vSphere 7.0 Update 2a
New in vSphere 7.0 U2
- HCI Mesh v2
  - Simplified Capacity Monitoring, Planning, and Alerting
  - vSAN performance ‘top contributors’
- vSAN RDMA
- Support internal KMS for vSAN encryption
- File services enhancement
- Suspend VMs to memory during Quick Boot
- Increased scale and DRS awareness for vSAN stretched clusters
Day 2 support of Enhanced Link Mode for VxRail-provided vCenter Server

VxRail 7.0 General Available to the Web!

VMware released vSphere 7.0 on April 2th, and following the commitment that Dell Technologies has to support on VxRail a new version of vSphere within 30 days of VMware GA… today, April 28th we have RTW (Released to Web) VxRail 7.0.

VxRail differences with vSphere 7 vLCM

As vSphere evolves in functionality in terms of lifecycle management, even internally at Dell, I see confusion sometimes regarding the value of VxRail.

I started to hear about this since late 2018, when vSphere Update Manager (VUM) with vSphere 6.7 U1 started to also update drivers/firmware for the storage controllers for selected vendors, and now with vSphere 7.0 and the new vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) even the name makes things more confusing.