• The Chilling Effect of Dell Smart Cooling

    As I have discussed in my previous blog post on liquid cooling, cooling is going to be a significant topic over the next few years. I found the diagram below to be a great way to visualize why that is: This shows the Thermal Design Power (TDP) for the next…

  • APEX Backup Services

    When it comes to legacy data protection and backup products, there are significant challenges to consider. When it comes to Data Protection in our modern world, it is becoming apparent that traditional data protection is no longer meeting the needs of companies as they continue to run more and more…

  • 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…

  • CyberTalks Episode 5

    Welcome to our CyberTalks’ podcast. Ransomware attacks were estimated to exceed 500 million in 2021. Because of its increasing prevalence, organizations have prioritized strategies to mitigate and reduce ransomware threats. Today, VMWare’s Dale McKay and Bob Plankers explain what ransomware is, the impact of ransomware, ransomware mitigation strategies and even…

  • XC Core Servers and Intel Optane Persistent Memory – Memory Tiering is here !

    Support for Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 series on XC Core servers was recently announced and is now generally available on the XC650 and XC750 server models. The key advantage of Intel Optane Persistent Memory is a lower cost platform with the same memory footprint and with similar performance to…

  • 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…

  • Live on the Edge with XR11 and XR12

    Why are more and more data being generated at the edge? What are the benefits and challenges of deploying at edge locations? Where can you deploy with the XR11 and XR12 servers? Virtually Anywhere. Get all the answers and more in this episode of PowerEdge SoundBytes!

  • 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…