Dell EMC PowerMax with VMware
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Blog by Drew Tonnesen. Learn how to integrate the PowerMax with VMware technologies. He has worked for Dell Technologies (Dell EMC) for the past 15 years. His primary focus is on the PowerMax platform and VMware.
Dell EMC PowerMax with VMware
1M ago
We’ve had a number of strange support cases where the SRDF SRA log files do not appear to be generating, at all. These fall into two categories from what support has discovered. One is dependent on version, while the other can occur at any version (or with any SRA for that matter). SRDF SRA 9.2.0.1 ..read more
Dell EMC PowerMax with VMware
1M ago
Last fall, I wrote a post on running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.5 on PowerFlex, though at the time VCF 5.0 was available (June 2023). The reason I could not take advantage of version 5.0 was because its BOM included vSphere version 8 for the vCenter and ESXi hosts which, at the time, was not ..read more
Dell EMC PowerMax with VMware
1M ago
VMware SRM 9.0 was released last week on 3/19 but I’m just getting around to it since it was not what I consider a major technical release, despite the number change. I think this is the first release post-Broadcom, and given how Broadcom has really asserted themselves over VMware, I suppose it is no surprise ..read more
Dell EMC PowerMax with VMware
1M ago
My PowerMax version of Linux KVM is now published here: https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/en-US/t/using-dell-powermax-with-linux-kvm-implementation-guide/ It covers iSCSI, FC, and NFS ..read more
Dell EMC PowerMax with VMware
1M ago
The final feature in my work with KVM I wanted to discuss is disaster recovery. DR is essential for any enterprise customer, and if you are considering moving off VMware to a more open source solution like KVM, you’ll need to understand how it works, and perhaps how it is different than Site Recovery Manager ..read more
Dell EMC PowerMax with VMware
2M ago
In my PowerFlex KVM paper I discuss local replication (snapshots) of storage domains (~ VMware datastores) and the possibilities for using them in backups or testing. I thought it might be worthwhile to give a practical example. As you, my readers, are generally familiar with VMware, I will reference datastore cloning for comparison and clarity ..read more
Dell EMC PowerMax with VMware
3M ago
The Linux KVM doc I mentioned in this post has been published here: Using Dell PowerFlex with Linux KVM | Dell Technologies Info Hub ..read more
Dell EMC PowerMax with VMware
3M ago
VSI 10.5 is available today and has a few features for PowerMax, though none for PowerFlex this time around. Let’s do a quick run-through. Upgrade No new feature here just a PSA. There are multiple ways to upgrade VSI. The easiest way is to use the UI, but you can push a compressed tar and ..read more
Dell EMC PowerMax with VMware
3M ago
Issue We’ve had a few customers (less than 5 currently) run into an issue with VMware SRM reprotect operations that for me warranted a post because I suspect more may hit it. The issue is that reprotect fails because invalid tracks accumulate on the R1 during failover and thus reprotect cannot succeed due to inconsistency ..read more
Dell EMC PowerMax with VMware
4M ago
Over the past couple years more than a few customers who run their virtualization infrastructures on VMware have considered other options. Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has also played a more recent role in this conversation. I’ve seen some purely unscientific surveys put this number at 20% of customers reassessing. I don’t have any reason to ..read more