VMware Telco Cloud Platform Sample Architecture Visio

A quick post to share a sample Visio of the VMware Telco Cloud Platform (TCP) on Dell infrastructure.

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.

A 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.

Moving 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!

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Running 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.

Configure 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.

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.

Upgrade 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.

VCF 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.

Custom VCF on VxRail vROps Dashboard

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

Custom 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.

Adding 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.

Dell 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.

Using 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.

VxRail ACE Upgrade Manager

With the GA release of VxRail ACE on November 4th comes the first phase of it’s Smart Lifecycle Management. This blog post provides an overview of what this Smart LCM brings to the table for VxRail customers.

VxRail ACE Resources

VxRail ACE went GA on November 4th 2019. This post contains links to various VxRail ACE resources.

Expanding Log Insight on VxRail for High Availability

Published 11th July 2019

A standard VxRail deployment provides the ability to deploy a VMware vRealize Log Insight appliance in Standalone Mode. In order to provide high availability for this Log Insight instance, the single vRLI appliance should be expanded to a 3-node vRLI cluster.

“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.

Adding Data Protection to vRA VM Blueprints

This post covers how to enable automated data protection services for Virtual Machines in VMware vRealize Automation, using the Data Protection extension from Dell EMC