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VMware Telco Cloud Platform Sample Architecture Visio

March 15, 2022March 16, 2022 / Steve Hegarty / Leave a comment

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?

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 / Steve Hegarty / 1 Comment

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.

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Adding a vSphere infrastructure to VMware Telco Cloud Automation

November 22, 2021December 2, 2021 / Steve Hegarty / 2 Comments

This post provides an overview of what’s required when adding a vSphere infrastructure to VMware Telco Cloud Automation.

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A quick RU to DU to CU to Core of 5G vRAN

November 11, 2021November 12, 2021 / Steve Hegarty / Leave a comment

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.

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Moving to the Telco Systems Business (TSB)

August 5, 2021 / Steve Hegarty / 1 Comment

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!

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Running vCD on VxRail

April 2, 2021April 6, 2021 / Steve Hegarty / 1 Comment

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.

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VxRail Monitoring and Alerting

February 16, 2021April 23, 2021 / Steve Hegarty / 7 Comments

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.

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VxRail Management Pack for vROps – Privileges

December 9, 2020 / Steve Hegarty / Leave a comment

This is a quick post to explain what the minimum required privileges are when configuring a user for the VxRail vROps Management Pack.

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Configure VxRail Manager syslog for vRealize Log Insight

November 4, 2020December 2, 2021 / Steve Hegarty / 13 Comments

This is a short post to explain how to configure syslog forwarding from VxRail Manager to vRealize Log Insight.

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VxRail SaaS Multi-cluster Management

October 15, 2020February 26, 2021 / Steve Hegarty / 2 Comments

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.

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Upgrade to VCF 3.10.1 on VxRail

September 25, 2020September 30, 2020 / Steve Hegarty / Leave a comment

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.

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SDDC Manager – No images found for product vCenter

August 28, 2020 / Steve Hegarty / Leave a comment

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.

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VCF 4 on VxRail Architecture Diagrams

May 27, 2020May 21, 2021 / Steve Hegarty / 4 Comments

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.

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Custom VCF on VxRail vROps Dashboard

May 13, 2020December 9, 2020 / Steve Hegarty / 2 Comments

This post shows how to create a custom vROps dashboard to monitor VCF on VxRail environments.

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Custom VxRail Versions Widget for vROps

May 13, 2020May 14, 2020 / Steve Hegarty / 3 Comments

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.

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VxRail ACE with VCF on VxRail

May 1, 2020October 8, 2020 / Steve Hegarty / Leave a comment

VxRail ACE uses cluster personalities to enable it to identify the deployment types of the VxRail systems that it manages.

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VxRail vROps Reports

April 29, 2020May 13, 2020 / Steve Hegarty / 1 Comment

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.

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Adding unsupported rev of VxRail to VCF – What happens

January 30, 2020May 13, 2020 / Steve Hegarty / Leave a comment

This post explains how VMware SDDC Manager validates VxRail code levels and rejects VxRail systems that are out of compliance.

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Dell EMC VxRail Management Pack for vROps

January 23, 2020March 16, 2021 / Steve Hegarty / 12 Comments

The VxRail Management Pack for vROps has been released. This post is a quick overview of what this provides and how to install it.

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Using VxRail with VCF and vRealize Suite

January 21, 2020May 13, 2020 / Steve Hegarty / Leave a comment

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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