• PowerFlex FTW Tales From the Field – The Service Catalog

    Tales From the Field – September ‘21 Imagine working in an environment so incredibly complex that service providers won’t even talk to you about outsourcing the support of it. This was a conversation we had with a customer a few years ago. This specific customer had a literal museum of…

  • Data Protection Security

    Data Protection Security

    I’ve been asked numerous times, “What is data protection?”, so I decided to take you through an adventure of data protection. Hello, I’m one of the newest team members of the GEOS team. I’ve been assigned to become a subject matter expert on data protection. Data protection can be difficult…

  • Are All Servers Created Equal?

    As a technical resource coming from the storage world, I always have considered servers to be a commodity necessary to run applications, meaning that, for me, a server was just a server as all servers in the market share the same components. As I am diving deeper into the PowerEdge…

  • APEX – On Prem Private Cloud in a Jiffy!

    Engineering Technologists, Curtis Edwards & Kris Walsh share their thoughts on the value APEX is bringing to Dell customers today. So, APEX is here! But what is it? APEX delivers cloud and infrastructure services for a range of data and workload requirements, enabling you to accelerate innovation, adapt to evolving…

  • APEX Infrastructure Services (Data Storage Services)

    In this post I am going to cover our APEX Data Storage Services product offering which is available now in the Catalog within the APEX Console. If you have not read APEX Pt. 1 I encourage you to do so. This will help in your overall understanding of APEX and…

  • VCF Skip Level Tool

    The VCF Skip Level Tool (SLT) facilitates software upgrades of VCF on VxRail to either the latest or a specified target version. The tool enables preceding versions of software to be skipped, speeding up upgrade. The 4 clips here discuss and demonstrate the SLT. Part 1 of 4 / clip…

  • Why Smart Fabric Services with VxRail?

    In recent discussions with customers about their environments, I have noticed the conversation has naturally evolved to the benefits of Smart Fabric Services (SFS) and networking, even though I wasn’t brought in to talk about networks. Many of the customers I talk with need their infrastructure to be much more…

  • Automating VxRail with VxRail API Powershell Modules

    For this blog post I wanted to go through some sample use cases for leveraging the VxRail API’s via Powershell Modules. This post is targeted towards users who are familiar with VxRail and are looking to automate some of those tasks that they are already performing today, via the UI.…

  • PowerFlex FTW: Tales From the Field – August ‘21

    “The Fraud Detection System” We were approached by an existing Vblock customer in spring of 2017. They were looking for a new hyperconverged system to support their new online fraud detection system, which was imperative to their business since they ingested millions of feeds per day from all over the…

  • VxRail Provided vCenter

    VxRail is a VMware vSphere and vSAN HCI appliance. A vCenter is required to manage the cluster or clusters. Customers have a choice of using their own vCenter or the VxRail provided vCenter, this is specified during deployment. VxRail provided vCenter is included at no cost to the customer. If…