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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Deploying 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 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 readingAdding 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
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.
Continue readingLifecycle Management for VVD on VxRail
The life-cycle of their Cloud Management Platform is of primary importance to customers. The CMP consists of multiple components that bring with them multiple integration points and dependencies. So the bonus of being able to automate the life-cycle of the CMP is a pretty big deal!
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 readingConfigure vRB Remote Data Collector
When using remote vCenter endpoints with vRealize Automation, it is important to configure a vRealize Business for Cloud Remote Data Collector (or two) local to the remote endpoint.
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 readingvRB for Cloud Management Pack for vROps
Just noticed that vROps v6.6 now comes with an adapter for vRealize Business for Cloud, so obviously felt the need to configure it and see what it provides.
Continue readingvRO Content Pack for vRealize Log Insight
Among the many Content Packs available for Log Insight on the VMware Marketplace is the latest vRO Content Pack. This is a quick overview of the vRealize Orchestrator Content Pack for vRealize Log Insight.
Upgrade vRB for Cloud to v7.3.1
Upgrading multiple vRealize components in our lab to latest available, this time it was vRealize Business for Cloud to be upgraded.
Configuring 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.
EHC Disaster Recovery as-a-Service Overview
The Enterprise Hybrid Cloud DRaaS solution leverages DellEMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines-based disaster recovery to restart or recover VMware virtual machine workloads and cloud management infrastructure to another converged infrastructure platform on an alternate site.
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