Category: VxRail

  • VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail Upgrades Unleashed! (VVU Ep. 6)

    Welcome to the 6th episode of VxRail Video Update (VVU) where Philip Armstrong, Curtis Edwards, Joe Mauer and Jeremy Merrill discuss some general updates from the month of July 2022. They are also joined by special guest, Sam Niemi to discuss some breaking news around VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on…

  • Is the VCTA-DCV certification worth it?

    Getting a certification for the sake of getting one is hardly worth it. But if the process can help boost your confidence and better understand widely used fundamental technologies, it’s worth its weight in gold. Thankfully as a Dell EMC employee, I had the opportunity to take the VMware Certified…

  • Time for a VxRail Tech Refresh? The what and how…..

    Recently VxRail has added a few new node types to the portfolio (well more than a few) and many of our early 13G VxRail nodes are due for tech refresh. With these two things in mind I have been finding myself often talking about the best strategy to replace ageing…

  • VxRail Video Update (VVU) – Episode 5 (June Recap)

    Apologies for the delay. We had some technical issues rendering the video, but we now have the fifth installment of the VxRail Video Update (VVU) where Philip Armstrong, Curtis Edwards, Joe Mauer and Jeremy Merrill discuss some general updates from the month of June 2022. This includes discussions around Joe’s…

  • VxRail as Platform for Machine Learning Workloads

    Machine Learning (ML) graduated in recent years from being a buzzword, to be applied today applied in many areas like health science, finance, and intelligent systems, etc. It allows software applications to become more accurate at predicting outcomes without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms use historical…

  • Extending the Enterprise Storage Footprint with Dell EMC Storage and VxRail Dynamic Nodes

    Overview With VxRail release 7.0.240, fibre channel HBAs are now supported to connect VxRail dynamic nodes to external storage for use as their primary storage. This opens up the ability for VxRail customers, to leverage the best of both worlds. The Enterprise class features and functionality of Dell EMC SAN…

  • VxRail Video Update (VVU) – Episode 4 (May Recap)

    In the fourth installment of the VxRail Video Update (VVU), Philip Armstrong, Curtis Edwards, Joe Mauer and Jeremy Merrill recap some of the updates that were released in May of 2022 as well as some general updates. This includes discussions around Dell Technologies World recap, VCF 4.4.1, VxRail 7.0.371, new…

  • Configuring File-Based Backups in VCF on VxRail

    So now that you have your new VCF on VxRail environment setup, one of the first things you should do is configure backups in SDDC Manager. The first thing we are going to cover in this post is how to configure a Linux (Ubuntu, in this case) server to act…

  • VxRail Multi Cloud Elasticity using VMware HCX

    As the multi cloud adoption is increasing, many VxRail customers find themselves in situations, where they have deployments in multiple sites and started the consumption of vSphere based public cloud offerings. As AWS, Azure and GCP provide vSphere offerings, application mobility is becoming problematic. Organizations need simplified application migration, workload…

  • VxRail DRaaS using VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

    The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about disaster recovery is probably some natural disaster, however businesses need to adopt disaster recovery (DR) for a wide range of scenarios. In the recent years the number of ransomware attacks increased significantly, placing it as number one cause for DR…