The following are some reference information about each brand HCI. Dell EMC VxRail Appliance vCenter Server Options on VxRail Appliance vCenter Server Options on VxRail Appliance Software upgrade – Dell EMC VxRail vSAN Stretched Cluster Software upgrade – Dell EMC VxRail vSAN Stretched Cluster Dell EMC VxRail – VMware Virtual SAN Stretched […]
Just received the announcement from Dell EMC Proven Knowledge Sharing program. Waiting is the hardest part, my article has been selected for publication. I am so excited to get this result today. ✌✌✌ Thank you for Dell EMCPP Program. https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-60851
Logical Diagram of VMware vSAN Stretched Cluster Physical Diagram of VMware vSAN Stretched Cluster Last week I deployed a test environment of VMware vSAN Stretched Cluster which is running on Dell EMC VxRail Appliance. In this post we will describe how to setup VMware vSAN Stretched Cluster on Dell EMC […]
IsilonSD Edge is software-defined storage for small businesses and remote offices of enterprise companies that need to manage a growing amount of unstructured data. IsilonSD Edge runs on your industry-standard server hardware (not included) while delivering the advantages of the Dell EMC Isilon OneFS operating system. Key features: Ideal for […]
I have passed this assessment today. ^^
In this post we will learn how to upgrade iDRAC firmware on Dell EMC VxRail Appliance, iDRAC (Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller) port is used to remote monitor each VxRail Node. Prerequisites: Make sure the iDRAC management NIC port is connected and IP address is obtained. Windows client which can […]
This demo describes the steps required to perform a data-in-place upgrade on a VxRail Appliance G410 from v4.0.310 to v4.5.0. NOTE: This demo is using the internal vCenter server. As a requirement of this upgrade, vCenter must be running at 6.5 U1. If using internal vCenter, the upgrade script will […]
Multi Node Addition To simplify and speed-up the process of adding nodes to existing Cluster Automation supports adding up to 6 nodes at a time Each Node Expansion is managed as a separated process Proxy Server Support Helps mitigate customers concerns regarding appliance security when connecting to internet VxRail manager […]
I am so happy to pass VxRail Appliance 4.x Deployment and Implementation exam today. ^^
For Unity All Flash storage, its architecture of Storage Pool is different with Unity Hybrid storage (eg, Unity 350F). This new Pool technology is called “Dynamic Pools”. The following is the difference between Traditional Pools and Dynamic Pools. Dynamic Pools do not require Hot Spares If a drive within a […]
Erasure Coding enables significant space reduction. An erasure coding 3+1, also known as Network RAID-5 3+1, can give us 50% more usable capacity than a RAID-1 Mirroring policy. Erasure Coding 3+1 requires a minimum of 4 Fault Domains/Hosts. In this environment, there are four nodes in this VxRail Cluster. In […]
EMC Storage Analytics solution provides a single, end-to-end view of virtualized infrastructures (servers to storage) powered by the VMware vRealize Operations Manager analytics engine. EMC Storage Analytics (ESA) delivers actionable performance analysis and proactively facilitates increased insight into storage resource pools to help detect capacity and performance issues so they […]
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