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February 7, 2020 VxRail/vSAN

Upgrade from DellEMC VxRail 4.7.300 to 4.7.410

In my last article I showed how to upgrade from 4.5 to 4.7.  In this article I thought I would

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November 1, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

How HCI/SDDC has impacted my career & life

Role and career pre-HCI & SDDC I was fortunate when I began my career to have EMC as my first

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October 22, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

Upgrade DellEMC VxRail from 4.5 to 4.7.300 (ESXi 6.7 U3 & vSAN 6.7 U3)

This is a continuation of my upgrade series I was requested to post. In an earlier article you saw how

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October 16, 2019 vSphere / VxRail/vSAN

Upgrade of VMware vCenter 6.5 U2 to vCenter 6.7 U3

I recently had the pleasure of upgrading one of my older environments running VMware vCenter 6.5 U2 to vCenter 6.7

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August 23, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

VMware vSAN 6.7 2019 Specialist (5V0-21.19) Exam Prep

I received a lot of feedback from my last certification exam review blog so I thought I would write one

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July 1, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

How to Perform VxRail 4.7 Cluster Install

Recently, I have been getting a lot of requests for “advice” on how to re-deploy VxRail. Apparently, the 13G server

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June 15, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

VxRail – Add drives to Cluster

Last week I was on a reference call in regards to VxRail. I was asked many questions but one surprising

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June 14, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

VxRail Composite Bundle taking abnormal amount of time to upload fix

In the last couple of weeks I have had to perform a few VxRail upgrades to particular code levels. As

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May 18, 2019 vSphere / VxRail/vSAN

How to Discover iDRAC IP on VxRail Node

Every so often I will get the question, “I need to log into the iDRAC on Host X, do you

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May 15, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

VxRail PTAgent Troubleshooting – Device Missing State

From time to time you may encounter an error where your VxRail node goes into a device missing state in

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May 14, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

How to RASR Reset VxRail 4.7 Node

There may be instances where you Need to factory reset a VxRail node. IE you are creating a new cluster,

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May 14, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

How to remove a VxRail 4.7 Node from it’s Cluster

There are instances where you may need to remove a node from your VxRail cluster.  One instance may be moving

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April 15, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

Useful Ruby Shell vSAN Commands

Lately, I have had people messaging asking to help them troubleshoot their environment. Everything from random performance impacts to my

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March 26, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

VxRail / vSAN Capacity Math Made Easy

It feels like I cannot go a week without being asked the question of, “What is my real capacity on

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March 16, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

Performance Tuning your vSAN / VxRail Environment

Recently, I have been getting a lot of questions around how to build vSAN for high performing workloads. This article

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March 15, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

Create a new vSAN Storage Policy in vSphere 6.5

I wanted to cover real quick creating a custom storage policy on vSAN, which even on a VxRail is done

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February 16, 2019 VxRail/vSAN

DellEMC VxRail 4.5 Upgrade Process

I thought I would make my first VxRail post over a topic I get asked frequently about, which is how

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Paul Bryant is a Enterprise Solutions Architect Consultant focused on VMware Cloud on AWS, Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC), migrations, & traditional vSphere environments. Advising, mentoring and learning new technologies is his passion.

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