Today we will discuss the comparison of Veeam CDP feature and other CDP products, e.g. Dell EMC RecoverPoint for VMs and Zerto. Dell EMC RecoverPoint for VMs 5.3 Installation and enabling CDP feature Below figure is the infrastructure diagram for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for VMs across two sites. Dell EMC […]
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In VxRail 7.0, you will use a new deployment wizard for VxRail initial configuration. Let’s begin with a walk-through of the VxRail installation process, click the “Get Started” button. Click “Accept” to agree to the End-User License Agreement, then click “Next” to continue. Specify the type of VxRail cluster that […]
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New features in RecoverPoint for VMs 5.3 HTML5 Plugin New RESTful API Shared VMDK and RDM support for clustered applications RecoverPoint for VMs supports the use of shared Virtual Machine Disks (VMDKs) or Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) with these applications: Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Microsoft Failover Clustering (Windows Server […]
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Each VxRail model series offers choices for network connectivity. The following figures show some of the physical network port options for the VxRail models. Each VxRail supports to add the optional 10Gb/25Gb PCIe Ethernet Adapter. These figures also show the available options that are supported for each VxRail node model […]
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Today I received the confirmation from Dell Technologies Education Services, I am very happy to get the award of the 2020 Knowledge Sharing Author. This is my third year to receive this award. Thanks to Dell Technologies Education Services. 2019 Knowledge Sharing Author Technical Article: Unmatched Availability Solution for VxRail […]
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To define the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solution, we need to consider many factors. Below table shows some hypervisor-based replication technologies comparison for reference. Based on this, you can find which DR solution is suitable for you if your environment is a virtual platform. Dell EMC RP4VM = Dell […]
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In this post, we will show the demonstration for VxRail system expansion and software upgrade. Environment: 1x vCenter Server Appliance 1x Platform Services Controller 1x VxRail Manager VM 3x VxRail E560 1x VxRail node available for scale-out Demo of VxRail Cluster Expansion Demo of VxRail System Upgrade (4.7.300 to 4.7.399)
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I am pleased to announce that my book “Storage Optimization with Unity All-Flash Array” can be ordered from Amazon now. In this book, the reader will get an overview of Dell EMC Unity Hybrid and All-Flash storage.This book includes seven chapters, wherein you will learn the hardware installation of Unity […]
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I am pleased to announce my new technical article “Unmatched Availability Solution for VxRail” was released on Dell EMC Education Services webiste. Thanks to my partner Samson Tu, VMware Consultant Bill Ho and Dell Technologies Consultant Joe Yip. This article describes how to plan and build the Active-Active (AA) Infrastructure, […]
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The architecture of SC storage with VMware ESXi host With Live Volume, there are two SC storage can be used in a uniform configuration for an application that has extremely high uptime requirements. Typically these configurations are used within a datacenter where connectivity is sufficient for low latency to allow […]
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