The Dell EMC High-End Systems Division talked about two systems. First about the VMAX All Flash, and later about the XtremIO X2. This post is about the latter one. The XtremIO X2 builds upon the foundation of the original “old” XtremIO, but also does a couple of things differently. This post will explore those difference a bit, and will also talk about asynchronous and synchronous replication.
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Recently I’ve been upgrading a vSphere 5.5 environment to vSphere 6.5U1. The vCenter upgrade process is pretty bulletproof by now: the installer is pretty much completely automated. I did run into some issues during the ESXi upgrade, one of which is the fact there were some conflicting VIBs present in the old installations. This would mean the ESXi 6.5U1 upgrade would not start. Time to start hacking in the CLI!