Reading Time: 3 minutes The upgrade procedure for DellEMC PowerStore X from version 2.0 to version 2.1 is a little tricky. The Dell EMC PowerStore Software Upgrade Guide explains the steps, but still there are some issue that you should mange. Because you have also to upgrade the ESXi from 6.7 to 7.0, but before this, you need also to resize the VMFS datastore.
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you try to upgrade the PowerStore OS and you get this error message: Prestage failed on appliance XXXX with the following message: The system encountered unexpected backend errors. Please contact support. (0xE04030010001) Then you may don’t need to contact the support, because the solution could be easy.
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you are using Veeam Backup & Replication (but also other backup solution) you can perform both backup and replication with the same tool. But with latest version of vSphere you can probably notice a huge difference between backup and replication speed if you are using NBD transport mode.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Do you need to understand SAN and NAS storage? There are several resources available online, but I would like to suggest a free course by Neil Anderson.
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