- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Revision history
- Introduction
- VxRail components and features
- VxRail Manager overview
- Manage VxRail entitlements
- Manage VxRail passwords
- Administrative tasks
- Replace and add VxRail hardware
- Set up external storage for a dynamic node cluster
- Reboot nodes
- VMware products used with VxRail
Dell VxRail 7.0.x Administration Guide
Generate the Update Advisor Report
Before you perform a software update, generate an Update Advisor Report to provide valuable information that supports the update.
About this task
You can generate an Update Advisor Report from VxRail Manager as shown in this task. You can also generate an Update Advisor Report from Internet Updates where you can select the option to upgrade targets. If you select upgrade targets, an Update Advisor Report is automatically generated daily. By default, Internet updates execute the update advisor report against the recommended target state every 24 hours.
Steps
- From the VMware vSphere Web Client, under the Inventory icon, select your VxRail cluster.
- Click the Configure tab, then under VxRail, click Updates.
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Under
Updates, click
LOCAL UPDATES. Then under
VxRail Upgrades, click
Plan and Update (Recommended).
- Under Installer Metadata File, select a metadata file and click UPLOAD. Click UPLOAD again on the confirmation window.
- After the file is uploaded from the Create Update Advisor Report window, click CREATE.
- When the report finishes generating, click NEXT, then select the LOCAL UPDATES tab and click CREATE REPORT.
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