Category: VxRail

  • VxRail Upgrades – now with vLCM

    Over the summer of 2021, VxRail added quite a bit of new features around the LCM functionality in the VxRail 7.0.240 release. In addition to vLCM integration with VxRail Manager, which we’ll talk about, we also added “Configuration Drift Reporting” and “Advisory Reports”. Both those reports are beneficial in making…

  • Part 2 (Video): Cloud Foundation on VxRail-Understanding NSX-T Deployment in the Management Domain.

    Following on from Part 1 of this series, this post steps through the configuration and outcome of running the Edge Cluster workflow. From the initialisation of the workflow in SDDC Manager, through an examination on the physical switch layer, through to the configuration outcome in NSX-T Manager

  • Part 1: Cloud Foundation on VxRail-Understanding NSX-T Deployment in the Management Domain

    So, you have successfully gone through the ‘Bringup’ for the Cloud Foundation Management domain. At the time, there wasn’t a business or operational requirement to deploy NSX-T Application Virtual Networks (AVN’s), but circumstances have changed in the interim. Perhaps you require AVN’s to support a vRealize solution or your environment…

  • VXRAIL ON POWEREDGE 15G – AN INSIDE VIEW

    It’s an exciting time when a new hardware platform is introduced for our hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) products especially when it’s for the VxRail HCI platform. Our GEOS Engineering Technologist team is fortunate enough to work directly with our development engineering and product management teams here at Dell Technologies. As a…

  • Intel Optane Gen 2 in VxRail 15G

    When Dell Technologies releases a new Generation of PowerEdge Servers, there is an overlap in the availability of the previous generation. As of the 1st half of 2021, Dell has released its 15th Generation of PowerEdge Servers which have introduced a number of new and exciting bells and whistles, but…

  • Deploying VxRail Dynamic Nodes with HCI Mesh

    Dynamic nodes are a new VxRail node type that has become available with the release of VxRail 7.0.240. Essentially Dynamic nodes are the same as other VxRail nodes but have no storage and no vSAN. This provides a way to grow your compute and storage at different rates or to…

  • Federated Security with VxRail

    Philip and Cory from the GEOS team discuss software defined network security concepts in the context of multi-region NSX-T. They demo security groups, policy creation, micro-segmentation, and global policy enforcement in a multi-instance VCF on VxRail environment.

  • Viewing your VxRail from the Cloud

    SaaS multi-cluster management is a management cloud service for VxRail that is designed to provide a central view of your clusters. This AI driven service provides you a global visualization view, health score, metric, capacity planning and LCM operations. This comes included with VxRail and no additional hardware or software…

  • Automating VxRail with Ansible

    To coincide with our latest release of VxRail, we have also released Ansible modules on Ansible Galaxy. This allows system administrators to now leverage Ansible to automate many tasks, such as deployment, expansion and checking system health. For this blog post, I’ll run through how to get the modules installed…

  • RecoverPoint for VMs with VxRail

    We get data protection options with every VxRail solution Firstly, you get the hardware: and you get the software bundle: From the software bundle, we get 2 data protection options and the two are RecoverPoint for VMs and VMware vSphere Replication. For the E, P, V and S Series nodes,…