Quick Thought: VMUG is now part of DTUC
I awoke this morning to the news that an announcement was made at DELL|EMC World that VMUG had been rolled into a the recently formed Dell Technologies User ...
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VSAN Permanent Disk Failure Detection – Health Status vs Hardware Status
A month or so ago I had one of our VSAN Management Clusters Health Status flag that there was a failed disk in one of the hosts disk groups. VSAN worked quic...
VSAN 6.2 ESXi Patch Updates + DELL PERC Firmware Updates
I wanted to cover off a couple of important updates in this post relating to the DELL PERC storage controller Firmware and software drivers as well as an imp...
VSAN 6.2 + DELL PERC: Important Certified Driver Updates
As many of us rejoiced at the release of VSAN 6.2 that came with vSphere 6 Update 2...those of us running DELL PERC based storage controllers where quickly w...
Preserving VSAN + DELL PERC Critical Drivers after ESXi 6.0 CBT Update
Last week VMware released a patch to fix another issue with Change Block Tracking (CBT) which took the ESXi 6.0 Update 1 Build to 3247720. The update bundle ...
vCloud Air and Virtustream – Just kill vCloud Air Already?!?
I’ve been wanting to write some commentary around the vCloud Air and Virtustream merger since rumours of it took place just before VMworld in Auguest and I’v...
Dell PowerEdge FX2: VSAN Disk Configuration Steps
When you get your new DELL FX2s out of the box and powered on for the first time you will notice that the disk configuration has not been setup with VSAN in ...
VSAN + DELL PERC: Important Driver and Firmware Updates
I'm currently going through and documenting the build process for our VSAN Management Clusters and one of the first steps I noted down was to double check th...
Dell PowerEdge FX2: CMC Configuration Gotchya
Back in September I wrote an introductory post (If you haven't read that post click here ) on the DELL PowerEdge FX2 HCI hardware and why we had selected it ...
First Look: Dell PowerEdge FX2 Converged Platform
For the last six months or so I've been on the look out for server and storage hardware to satisfy the requirement for new Management Clusters across our Zet...
How To: DELL DSET Report Tool Live CD and Linux VLAN Config
Here is a quick post on generating support logs for DELL cases if you are running VMware ESX(i) on any of the DELL server hardware. I had a CPU alert appear ...