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
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 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 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.
Continue readingExpanding 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.
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 readingVxRail ACE – A Technical Overview
As of June 3rd 2019 VxRail ACE (Analytical Consulting Engine) is in Early Access availability for VxRail customers. This post should give you a better idea of what ACE is and how it works.
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 readingInstalling the vRealize Data Protection Extension from Dell EMC
This post covers the installation of the vRealize Data Protection Extension from Dell EMC.
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.
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