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Upgrade from VxRail 7.0.460 to 7.0.510 or 8.0 on new non-initializated infraestructure
Hi!
I am setting up the environment for a new VxRAIL installation, and I have a question before starting the installation.
According to the order, the factory version is 7.0.460, and when configuring in the VxRail Configuration Portal, I cannot add LAGs to the vDS (the <<Prepare for LAG of VxRail Network guide>> states that it is allowed starting from version 7.0.450).
Due to company requirements, I need to create 2 vDS with 2 uplinks each in LAG:
- vDS1 is reserved for Discovery, Management, vCenter, and Guest VM,
- vDS2 is for vSAN and vMotion.
In the Configuration Portal I can see is that if the version is at least 7.0.510 or higher, I can create one LAG associated to one vDS.
My cuestion is. What would be the procedure to update the version of VxRail before initializing it and thus make the desired configuration at first?. Assuming I could only have one LAG on one vDS, later I can reconfigure the second vDS manually.
Thanks in advance
DELL-Naoyuki K
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June 4th, 2024 04:11
The feature of Dynamic LAG（LACP）at an initialization has been supported since 7.0.450 as you know. However, 7.0460 is the special HW release for a new 16G Poeredge model, so 7.0.460's feature set is equivalent to 7.0.410, that's why you cannot configure Dynamic Lag in the Portal.
The way to upgrade Factory Shipped image on site is to reimaging the node with higher version.
So you can reimage your node with 7.0.460 to 7.0.510 before initialization.
Caution, you can not downgrade to older versions by reimaging the node without approval from Dell.
The step to reimage can be found in solve online and the necessary file are located in Dell support site.
you can find it by " node imaging management tool" or NIM as a acryonim
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June 4th, 2024 08:59
I will sign that. We often re-image the Nodes. Keep notice that this can take some time because the Image is a larger one :).
Regards,
Joerg
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June 6th, 2024 09:57
Of course, after 3 hours the image has been deployed and booted in version 8 on the 6 nodes.
The only thing I see is the following message in all of them once booted into VMware ESXI 8.0.2 build-23305546
Installation Status: Product Unknown is failed to be installed because of error failed to execute script vx_00_extract_payload.sh
The hosts are not wired, only with the iDRAC.
Is this message normal given that the communications infrastructure is not prepared? Or there's a problem with the operating system.
Thanks