A quick post to share a sample Visio of the VMware Telco Cloud Platform (TCP) on Dell infrastructure.
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How’s your Dell for SR-IOV?
This post covers how to enable your Dell server hardware for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) capability, and how to configure SR-IOV for a VMware Virtual Machine.
Continue readingAdding a vSphere infrastructure to VMware Telco Cloud Automation
This post provides an overview of what’s required when adding a vSphere infrastructure to VMware Telco Cloud Automation.
Continue readingA quick RU to DU to CU to Core of 5G vRAN
This post is a brief collection of some basic understandings that I have gathered around 5G virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) operations, and a little about where Dell Technologies plays a part.
Continue readingMoving to the Telco Systems Business (TSB)
Some career moves are the result of big or hard decisions, others can be a natural progression, while others can be much more than what they initially seemed. For me, moving to the Dell Technologies Telco Systems Business is most definitely bigger and more exciting than what I initially expected!
Continue readingRunning vCD on VxRail
The topic of running VMware Cloud Director (vCD) on VxRail has come up a few times lately, with some varying questions around potential requirements, so I thought that it may be useful to create a post to talk through it at a high level.
Continue readingVxRail Monitoring and Alerting
This post takes a look at some of the monitoring and alerting options available for VxRail administrators, including native, on-premises, and off-premises Software as a Service options.
Continue readingVxRail Management Pack for vROps – Privileges
This is a quick post to explain what the minimum required privileges are when configuring a user for the VxRail vROps Management Pack.
Continue readingConfigure VxRail Manager syslog for vRealize Log Insight
This is a short post to explain how to configure syslog forwarding from VxRail Manager to vRealize Log Insight.
Continue readingVxRail SaaS Multi-cluster Management
VxRail Software as a Service Multi-Cluster Management is the artist formerly known as VxRail ACE, and is managed via the MyVxRail portal.
The product was recently re-branded (to be more descriptive of it’s capabilities) while also bringing its first wave of Active Management features to the party.
Continue readingUpgrade to VCF 3.10.1 on VxRail
This post provides a high-level walk-through of the upgrade sequence and timings from VCF 3.10.0.1 on VxRail to VCF 3.10.1 on VxRail.
Continue readingSDDC Manager – No images found for product vCenter
Quick post to help guide folks to the correct course of action if you hit this issue which I came across in VCF 3.10.0.1 on VxRail.
Continue readingVCF 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.
Continue readingCustom VCF on VxRail vROps Dashboard
This post shows how to create a custom vROps dashboard to monitor VCF on VxRail environments.
Continue readingCustom VxRail Versions Widget for vROps
A nice custom widget to add to your VxRail dashboard in vROps is a simple diagram to clearly display the various versions of VxRail running in your environment.
VxRail ACE with VCF on VxRail
VxRail ACE uses cluster personalities to enable it to identify the deployment types of the VxRail systems that it manages.
Continue readingVxRail vROps Reports
The VxRail Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager provides 5 out-of-the-box VxRail-specific reports to choose from. This post provides details on what these reports provide, how the information is presented, and how to run each report.
Continue readingAdding unsupported rev of VxRail to VCF – What happens
This post explains how VMware SDDC Manager validates VxRail code levels and rejects VxRail systems that are out of compliance.
Continue readingDell EMC VxRail Management Pack for vROps
The VxRail Management Pack for vROps has been released. This post is a quick overview of what this provides and how to install it.
Continue readingUsing VxRail with VCF and vRealize Suite
This is a short post highlighting how some of the vRealize Suite products interact with VxRail, how they connect, and what kind of information is provided by each specific to the VxRail itself.
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