DellEMC VxBlock – Cisco UCS Ethernet Adapter Policy
The following details the creation of a VxBlock Cisco UCS ‘Ethernet Adapter Policy’ for a compute B-Series blade running VMware ESXi. This policy is leveraged by a service-profile which gets […]
Virtualization & Storage
The following details the creation of a VxBlock Cisco UCS ‘Ethernet Adapter Policy’ for a compute B-Series blade running VMware ESXi. This policy is leveraged by a service-profile which gets […]
A very useful new feature in ViPR 3.6 is the ability to increase/decrease the number of fibre channel paths on an existing VPLEX or VMAX export (host/cluster). The following example showcases […]
This post details the wizard driven installation steps to install ViPR Controller and configure for a VMAX AFA system. Recommendation when deploying on a vSphere cluster is to deploy the […]
When a VxBlock is shipped from the factory all Windows & SQL user/db accounts are setup as local accounts, due to obvious reasons (customer AD does not exist in factory!). […]
Introducing ‘EHC on VxRail’! Introduced as part of the EHC 4.1.1 release (Code named “Challenger”) – GA March ’17 Simple, Easy, Start Small, Scalable! VxRAIL HCI Appliance now has the […]
The following provides guidance in a scenario where your ESXi host boots from SAN, for example this is the standard configuration for Cisco UCS blades included in a Vblock/VxBlock. These […]
A frequent question I receive: “What is the primary production storage system included in a VxBlock / Vblock?” Answer: Note: Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) STaaS on V(x)Block leverages DellEMC ViPR […]
This ‘Error 12000’ maybe encountered while exporting a VMAX 3/AFA LUN from ViPR Controller as a shared datastore to a specific vSphere ESXi Cluster (ViPR shared export mask). The reason for the failure is because ViPR either attempts to add the new shared LUN to independent exclusive ESXi Masking Views or to a manually created shared cluster masking view: Error […]
VMAX All Flash compression feature – released with HYPERMAX OS 5977.945.890 Some key points: 1. This new feature compresses data before it is written to flash drives. 2. Compression is […]
This post provides a high level overview of the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud 4.x ‘Hybrid Management Model’, which is the default model used for VxBlock & VxRack EHC solutions. The following DellEMC acronyms […]
New RecoverPoint Hardware Platform Introducing the latest generation of RecoverPoint Appliance the ‘EMC Europa 1U’ Gen6 which replaces the ‘Intel R1000’ Gen5 Appliance. The Gen6 RPA is available from RP […]
The following is an excellent post written by Paul Martin (@rawstorage) which details the eMGMT feature available on VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 Systems: Embedded Managment for VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 – Part 1 Introduction to Embedded Management and Configuring Client Server Access Two key questions that have come up recently and is addressed in Paul’s post: What can I do with […]
See also: EMC VMAX – Build Location and Model Type The following table lists the serial numbers associated with VMAX3(100K,200K&400K) and VMAX All Flash(250F,450F&850F) systems: Update: additional systems include [x977 VMAX […]
The following table represents the recommended VMware vSphere ESXi host settings to be applied when an ESXi host(s) is connected to a single array and also details multi-array settings when at […]
This post addresses an issue where you experience the following error while logging into the Avamar Administrator Console: “Invalid Certificate. Install a valid certificate and try again. You can use the Java Control […]
A Quantum Leap in Hyper-Converged Appliances EMC|VCE and VMware have added a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance (HCIA) offering named VxRail to the existing CI portfolio of Vblocks, VxBlocks, VxRacks (Blocks,Racks,Appliances). VxRail […]
The example provided is based on the following design: Dual X-Brick Cluster Cisco MDS Switches – Dual Fabric VMware ESXi 4x Host Environment 4 Smart Zoned Paths per ESXi Host (2 paths […]
The following steps detail the installation of the ‘EMC RecoverPoint for VMs’ Splitter VIB on ESXi hosts. The requirement is to Install the ‘RP for VMs’ splitter on each ESXi […]
The following list and diagram details the respective storage-related TCP ports that ViPR uses to communicate with a particular EMC Storage product. If a firewall is present between the ViPR […]
This post will detail some general best practices for VPLEX Back-end connectivity to an XtremIO storage array. As you will see from the diagrams below each VPLEX director should have […]