VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) over Dell EMC VxRail Bill of Materials (BOM) VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail is a solution offering that provides best-in-class serviceability and lifecycle management capabilities for customers looking to automate the deployment and management of the full VMware Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) stack on Dell EMC VxRail. The Cloud Foundation software product is comprised of the following software Bill-of-Materials (BOM). The components in the BOM are interoperable and compatible. This article will provide high level glance on some of the important component and their versions needed to make right decision in terms of deployment. Kindly make sure you always go through the VMware Cloud…
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My VMUG experience & learning
My VMUG experience & learning! How my VMUG journey started – Well, one of my colleagues @waghmaredb read out on the dates for upcoming VMUG event, and we discuss possibilities of attending one. I was aware of VMUG events however haven’t attended one ever. Why not? It was an opportunity to learn and meet thus got the link from colleague and it required to be signed up before I could register for an event. Here we go, signed up on VMUG page for free, fairly easy procedure as you sign up for any other memberships. Once signed up, I went on to register for an event scheduled for the month…
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Configuring DELLEMC Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) & Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE) for VMware
Configuring DELLEMC Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) & Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE) for VMware Environment In this blog post i am going to cover configuration of Avamar Virtual Edition (AVE) & Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE) Dell EMC Avamar Virtual Edition is great for enterprise backup data protection. Avamar Virtual Edition is optimized for backup and recovery of virtual and physical servers, enterprise applications, remote offices, and desktops or laptops. Key features: Delivers a software-only data protection solution Supports VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Azure Provides guest and image-level backup and recovery Enables application-consistent recovery Uses variable-length deduplication Uses AES-256 encryption to secure data in flight or at rest Data…
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VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Stretched Cluster for Workload Domain on VxRail
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Stretched Cluster for Workload Domain on VxRail In this blog post, I am going to share procedure on how to stretch a VCF MGMT Workload Domain configured on VxRail (VxRail is DellEMC HCI Appliance) The vSAN stretched cluster extends the cluster from one data site to two sites for high availability and load balancing. You can stretch the cluster on the management domain as well as the workload domain using the Supportability and Serviceability Utility (SoS). You may want to stretch a cluster for the following reasons. Planned maintenance You can perform a planned maintenance on an availability zone without any downtime and then migrate the…
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vSphere agent modification for vRealize Automation (vRA) Endpoint
vSphere Agent Modification for vRealize Automation (vRA) Endpoint While deploying & testing vRealize Suite as part of my VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) for the Lab, I noticed naming convention issues with IaaS Agent configuration for vRA thus the IaaS Agent name and Endpoint name had to be modified for vRA Endpoint. It all started during create an Endpoint for vSphere (vCenter) into the vRA infrastructure. I had deployed vRA with Full High Availability architecture (Enterprise Deployment) essentially it means deploying following number of components (VMs) and configure necessary services and agents. This type of deployment is used for production, and allow you to design the topology best suited to your…
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Dell EMC VxFlex HCI Platform for Kubernetes Stateful Applications
Dell EMC VxFlex HCI Platform for Kubernetes Stateful Applications This blog showcase VxFlex OS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver to deliver persistent storage for PostgreSQL database running on Kubernetes Container VxFlex Integrated Systems and VxFlex Ready Nodes, also known as the Flex family, create a server-based SAN by combining storage virtualization software, known as VxFlex OS, with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers to deliver flexibility, scalability, and capacity on demand. Local storage resources are combined to create a virtual pool of block storage with varying performance tiers. The Flex family enables you to start small (with as little as four nodes) and scale incrementally. VxFlex OS is capable of supporting a…
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DELL EMC XtremIO Workflow for vRO
DELL EMC XtremIO Workflow for vRO VMware vRealize Orchestrator is an IT process automation tool that allows automated management and operational tasks across both VMware and third-party applications. The XtremIO Workflows for vRealize Orchestrator facilitates the automation and orchestration of tasks that involve the XtremIO Storage Array. It augments the capabilities of VMware’s vRealize Orchestrator solution by providing access to XtremIO Storage Array-specific management workflows The XtremIO workflows for VMware vRealize Orchestrator contain both basic and high level workflows. A basic workflow is a workflow that allows for the management of a discrete piece of XtremIO functionality, such as Consistency Groups, Clusters, Initiator Groups, Protection Schedulers, Snapshot Sets, Tags, Volumes,…
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vRSLCM is Winner!! – Deploy vRealize Operations in Cloud Foundation
vRSLCM is Winner!! – Deploy vRealize Operations in Cloud Foundation In my previous blogs, I had covered my experience and procedure to stretch a MGMT workload domain on VCF, in this blog I will share information on vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) deployment & configuration using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform. What Does vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) offer? VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager comes free with VMware vRealize Suite in all three editions. It is designed to simplify the deployment and on-going management of the vRealize product portfolio. It delivers fast time-to value, improved user experience and greater operational efficiency to vRealize Suite customers.…
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Dark Site VCF – Manually downloading the VMware Cloud Foundation Software’s & Update Bundle
Dark Site VCF!! Manually downloading the VMware Cloud Foundation Software’s & Update Bundle In this blog I am going to cover how to manually download an LCM bundle. LCM update bundle must be available on SDDC Manager before you can apply the update. When an update bundle is available, a notification is displayed on the Workload Domain page in the update/Patches tab. LCM polls the VMware depot to access update bundles. If you do not have internet connectivity in your Cloud Foundation system, you can use the Bundle Transfer utility to manually the bundles from the depot on your local computer and then upload them to SDDC Manager. The utility identifies applicable bundles based…
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Oracle RAC (VMware VMs) Active-Active DC Use Cases using DellEMC PowerMax Storage
Oracle RAC (VMware VMs) Active-Active DC Use Cases using DellEMC PowerMax Storage Below are the some of the quick Use Cases to be demonstrated using Oracle RAC for active-active DC scenarios using Dell EMC PowerMax Storage The Oracle RAC was built on VMware platform. USE CASE 1 Write database index into common DB from both the RAC Nodes. Firstly count index records on both RAC instances before adding new records. I am using simple bash script that uses sqlplus and count the records. The scripts are attached in the bottom section. 2. Add new Index records into both the RAC instances. This action will prove that you can write into…