Upgrade is easy, straightforward, and very fast even when upgrading the vSphere build which now only reboots once automatically thus causing less wait and disruption not to mention quick boot. Many new features are introduced in this build, but for me the reason I want to demonstrate this is because VSAN 6.7 now supports Virtual Machines and Microsoft Failover Clusters with iSCSI VSAN shared disks, thus making legacy failover clusters and file services which are often found at customer sites, supported on a VSAN and subsequently VxRail when the upgrade is officially released. This is a POC unit and I can reimage the whole box to a supported configuration. Though I am doing this demonstration on a VxRail appliance, it is not supported and would break your VxRail Manager and Dell EMC Support so be advised. VMware vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) In a nutshell, the following are not currently compatible with 6.7 (many wont be upgrading any time soon): More importantly before upgrading, and I am sure many of you know this the hard way, lets check the release notes and important information on 6.7 build to visualize what will and will not work after this major upgrade: To read all about the enhancement and new features introduced in 6.7, checkout these links: Upgrades to 6.7 is not only very easy but is now much much faster than before with the introduction of quick boot and major upgrade single reboots, all using the HTML5 console.
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