• VCF on VxRail 4.2 – Walkthrough (Part 2: VI Workload Domain)

    This is the second in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.2. The following detailed post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of deploying a VI Workload Domain with a second VDS dedicated to NSX-T traffic: Versions used in this example are VCF 4.2 & VxRail 7.0.131.…

  • Why Dell Technologies for Azure Stack HCI

    Apart from being #1 in all areas that matter, why should you choose Dell EMC when it comes to Azure Stack HCI? Join me and my colleagues Mike Derrberry and Michael Wells Jr. as we delve deeper in to why our Dell EMC Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI…

  • VxRail Technical Overview – Part 2 CTO Advisor PoC

    Dell Technologies GEOS team member Joe Mauer participated in the CTO Advisor technical analysis of the value of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on VxRail integration. See more from the CTO Advisor: Dell Technologies VxRail HCI System Software Research – The CTO Advisor

  • VxRail Cluster Encryption with the vSphere Native Key Provider

    VMware has recently introduced the vSphere Native Key Provider (NKP). This is a way to enable data-at-rest protections straight from vSphere itself. Before we talk about the NKP, let’s first go back one step… Using a KMS So far, to encrypt a VxRail (vSAN) cluster, the only option was to…

  • VCF 4 on VxRail Architecture Diagrams

    This post contains some sample high-level, non-official VCF 4 on VxRail architecture diagrams and notes that I have put together for enablement purposes, and may be of use to others. These diagrams are reflective of VCF 4.2 on VxRail, and are based on the following supported architectures: Standard Architecture Consolidated…

  • VCF on VxRail 4.2 – Walkthrough (Part 1: Bring Up)

    This is the first in a series of posts covering VCF On VxRail 4.2. The following detailed post provides an example walkthrough covering the process of: Deploying a VxRail Management Workload Domain cluster Deploying VMware CloudBuilder for VxRail Bring-Up of VCF 4.2 Versions used in this example are VCF 4.2…

  • VxRail and Intel Optane

    There are many who are not aware of what Intel Optane is and in turn not aware that VxRail supports Intel Optane media. It’s not just a cool name that makes you feel like getting into a racecar and doing 150 mph on the freeway – although that sounds like…

  • PowerFlex is Validated and Optimized for Enterprise Workloads

    When we ask Enterprise Customers, what are the key expectations that you have from IT vendors such as Dell? They always say about Performance ( high IOPs, low latency, fast throughput), Availability (99.999% is a common availability measurement for enterprise storage, Automated load balancing, Fault-tolerant clusters), Automation and Orchestration, Always-on…

  • PowerFlex FTW

    Tales From the Field – May ‘21 “The Online Retailer” PowerFlex is the most unique solution in the Dell Technologies catalog. Anyone who’s seen companies transform and modernize their legacy infrastructure with PowerFlex can attest to the array of advantages this product provides. Most anyone familiar with PowerFlex is also…

  • VCF 4.2 On VxRail – Validate Thumbprints

    In order to prevent the opportunity of a Man In The Middle (MiTM) attack VMware have introduced a security feature which validates the SSH RSA fingerprint and SSL thumbprint of both vCenter Server and VxRail Manager along with the SSH fingerprints of the ESXi hosts during initial deployments. This feature…