Release Notes

Improved hardware monitoring

The updates to the EVO:RAIL Management interface offer an improved look into your hardware's health

status. You are able to see the status of every node in every appliance, and monitor hard disk drives

(HDDs), solid state drives (SSDs), Network interface controllers (NICs), and ESXi boot devices.

Serviceability automation

The EVO:RAIL Management interface now automates the Hardware Replacement Process for HDDs,

SSDs, and 10 GbE NICs. ESXi boot device replacement is now semi-automated.

Configuration validation

Deeper configuration validation is provided to address common errors while configuring or adding an

appliance. This validation ensures that:

• All hosts are able to communicate with each other on a link-local network.

• Only the primary ESXi host is running vCenter Server.

• Only two configured port groups exist: one for EVO:RAIL and one for the vCenter network.

• All Dell Solution VMs are configured properly.

• An uploaded JSON configuration file is valid and any incorrect fields are highlighted in EVO:RAIL

Configuration.

Support for mixed CPU clusters

EVO:RAIL now supports mixing Ivy Bridge (2620–v2) and Haswell (2620–v3) CPUs in the same EVO:RAIL

cluster. This applies only to EVO:RAIL appliances that are initially built with release 1.1.0 and later.

EVO:RAIL appliances that are updated from release 1.0.x are not automatically enabled. For more

information, see the Enable EVC instructions section in this document.

Documentation changes

Extensive documentation changes have been made based on feedback. The updated documentation

includes both release 1.1 and 1.2. The EVO:RAIL User’s Guide has been expanded and split into two

separate documents (Initial Configuration and Network Guide and Management and Maintenance Guide).