Dell EMC – VxBlock System 1000
‘Welcome to the New era of Dell EMC CI’ Some brief highlights and related articles covering the next generation of Dell EMC CI – VxBlock System 1000 4X Storage […]
VxBlock + VMAX 950F/FX
VxBlock offers the award-winning all-flash enterprise storage VMAX 950F – Either with a VxBlock 740 as primary storage or as a VxBlock Storage Technology Extension (STE) add-on to a VxBlock 350, […]
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 […]
V(x)Block – AMP VUM & SQL Active Directory Integration
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!). […]
ViPR Controller – Ingest V(x)Block UCS Boot Volumes
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 […]
VxBlock & Vblock – Core Storage Systems
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 […]
DellEMC EHC 4.x ‘Hybrid Management Model’ (VxBlock/VxRack)
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 […]
Vblock – Advanced Management Pod Second Generation (AMP-2)
Vblock Advanced Management Pod (AMP) The AMP consists of the management components of a Vblock system, these management components are self-Contained and provide Out-of-Band Management for the entire Vblock Infrastructure. The servers and storage(in the case of AMP-2HA) that make up the AMP host all of the Vblock management applications in a dedicated environment separate from that of the production environment. This type of […]
The Vblock vCake
Created by Cliff Cahill @CliffCahill In conjunction with the announcement of the ‘Vblock 740’ @VCE’s latest addition to the Vblock range Cliff kindly put his creative and baking skills to […]
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