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…