The announcement of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on Dell VxRail 8.0.200 Release introduces the ability for VxRail WLD hosts to use vSAN remote datastores as principal storage. The new release introduces many new features which can be explored here and here, but this post will show how to deploy a WLD using VxRail Dynamic Nodes and a vSAN remote datastore as... Continue Reading →
VCF on VxRail: Create vLCM WLD Using WFO Script
Recently I made a post about creating a vLCM enabled WLD using WFO UI. However, sometimes the WFO UI may not have a certain capability or feature yet. In those cases, there is a workflow optimization script that can be used to gather all the information for the new WLD, and then make an API... Continue Reading →
VCF on VxRail: Create vLCM WLD Using WFO UI
The announcement of VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on Dell VxRail 8.0.200 Release introduces the ability for Management and VI Workload domains (WLD) to be lifecycle managed using a cluster image instead of legacy LCM methods. This new release introduces many new features which can be explored here and here. To understand more about vLCM when... Continue Reading →
VxRail: Enabling vLCM Using VxRail API
As part of the VxRail 8.0.200 release, it is now possible to enable vLCM on a VxRail cluster using the public API. Enabling vLCM using the VxRail API can be accomplished using an API client like Postman, curl commands, or directly from VxRail Manager's built in API browser. There are a few different ways to... Continue Reading →
VxRail: Enabling vLCM Using VxRail UI
VMware announced vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) with the launch of vSphere 7.0. vLCM allows customers to update their ESXi hosts using a cluster image instead of traditional VMware Update Manager (VUM) baselines. The neat thing about vLCM is that cluster images can contain server firmware as well ESXi updates and drivers. VxRail already has the... Continue Reading →