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 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 readingVxRail 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 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.
Continue readingDeploying VCF on VxRail – Understanding What does What
Published Aug 19th 2019
This post is a result of me wanting to understand the various install-tools, steps, and processes involved in deploying VCF on VxRail.
Continue reading“Fix This First” – What your VxRail ACE Health Score is really telling you
A very basic rule of thumb when it comes to system monitoring is that Red is Bad, and Green is Good. Yellow/Orange/Amber then might mean that something is wrong, definitely not quite right, and needs attention before it goes Red.
The VxRail ACE Health Score helps customers prioritize those issues that need attention.
Continue readingForward Avamar Proxy log files to Log Insight
This post covers how to configure integration between Avamar Proxy Servers and VMware Log Insight.
Continue readingAdding VVD vCenter Clients to Avamar
This post covers how to add VVD on VxRail vCenter Servers to DellEMC Avamar.
Continue readingOn-Demand Backup options for vRA Virtual Machines
This post provides a walk through of executing an on-demand Backup of a Virtual Machine owned by vRealize Automation, changing an existing VM Backup Policy, and adding Data Protection to an unprotected Virtual Machine using the DellEMC Data Protection Extension.
Continue readingvRA Actions and Entitlements for VM Data Protection
This post covers how to configure User Entitlements for Virtual Machine Actions in vRealize Automation, specific to the DellEMC Data Protection Extension.
Continue readingDell EMC vRealize Automation Data Protection Extension: This much I know
The Dell EMC vRealize Data Protection Extension provides out of the box Backup as a Service functionality for vRA Tenant virtual machines.
Continue readingUsing VVD on VxRail as CMP-only
VMware Validated Design (VVD) VxRail for the Software Defined DataCenter (SDDC) is a prescriptive architecture whose value customers easily recognize and appreciate, but in some cases may also need to deviate-from based on their own requirements. One such use case is where existing VxBlock customers want to leverage VVD on VxRail but also want to retain their existing infrastructure.
Continue readingVVD on VxRail: Deployment Options
VMware Validated Design (VVD) on VxRail was recently announced and has been attracting great interest. This post provides a high level overview of the available deployment options.
Continue readingMonitoring vRA XaaS Workflows with vROps
The VMware vRO Management Pack for vROps provides the ability to monitor the workflows of 3rd party vRO packages in addition to it’s own default vCenter and Management Pack workflows.
Continue readingInstalling vRO Management Pack for vROps
The installation of the vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) is quite straightforward, though the configuration of the adapter takes a little more than is outlined in the official Mgmt Pack for vRO v1.0 Guide
Continue readingBackup and De-duplication of Encrypted Data
Data can be encrypted. Data can be backed-up. And data can be de-duplicated. But can that same data be encrypted, backed up and then de-duped? As usual, it depends …
Continue readingConfiguring vRA Management Pack for vROps
Before upgrading some of the vRealize components in our lab, I wanted to check the existing operations between some of the components, namely vROps and vRA. It turns out that the configuration requirements are quite different with the newer versions of vRA and the vRA Management Pack for vROps.
EHC on VxRail – From Hooray! to EHC
Support was recently announced for the Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud platform on the VxRail HCI appliance. Aimed at smaller enterprises, this platform has been greatly anticipated and is generating huge interest with customers. What may not be as widely known and appreciated is how much the overall installation is accelerated by the EHC Automated Installation Tool.
