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How to determine if a vCenter is customer supplied or vxrail integrated?
How to determine if a vCenter is customer supplied or vxrail integrated? I inherited a lab with a small VxRail cluster and I want to upgrade vCenter, but obviously would only do that if vCenter is NOT integrated with VxRail. Thanks.
Jeremy.Merrill
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February 10th, 2021 05:00
There are a few ways to tell.
1) Is vCenter running on the cluster? If it is, there's a high probability it's the one deployed by VxRail MGR during the install
2) If you stage the upgrade, do you see vCenter as one of the components that will be upgraded in the list?
3) If you're on 4.7.100 or later, in vCenter, if you go to the cluster, then select "Configure", and selection "System" under VxRail MGR, you will see a "convert vCenter mode" on the right hand side of the screen. It will have to option to "convert" and it will state "vCenter Mode: embedded".
DELL-Josh Cr
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February 8th, 2021 14:00
Hi,
What does it show for the licensing in vCenter? I am not sure there is a way to tell the difference between the installs just from looking at them, the guide does have some of the feature differences. https://dell.to/36XTp2y
rmasteller
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February 15th, 2021 10:00
@Jeremy.Merrill ,
"3) If you're on 4.7.100 or later, in vCenter, if you go to the cluster, then select "Configure", and selection "System" under VxRail MGR, you will see a "convert vCenter mode" on the right hand side of the screen. It will have to option to "convert" and it will state "vCenter Mode: embedded". "
I have seen screen shots of this and it doesn't exist on any of my known customer-supplied vCenters, so I'm assuming this is the same in this cluster. Thanks for the info!