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Dell EMC CloudIQ – VMware integration
Part Deux ! Following on from my recent look at the CloudIQ mobile version, let’s take a look at a brand new functionality addition to this application. The same integrations, insights and...
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Quick Tip – VMware VCSA; Check Update progress
Running an update to the VCSA is very easy, but a recent update I started seemed to be taking a lot longer than normal, appearing to be stalled on the “Start staging packages” screen for about 20...
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Dell EMC Unity AFA-OE version 4.5x Upgrade
Gone are the days of 6 hour, nerve racking updates for Storage Arrays. They used to be a logistical nightmare. Change Control, careful planning. What if it goes pear shaped ? These are things that used...
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Dell EMC Unity and VMware VVols – What’s all the fuss? Pt1
There’s been lots of talk about the wonders of VVols for a long time. They seemed to be a large amount of hope that they would be the panacea of all our Storage and Virtualization woes and be the...
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Dell EMC Unity – Quick Tip- Be careful with Auto LDAP config
Sometimes you learn things the hard way. I recently had a Unity 550f Array that developed a penchant for a couple of sub-optimal behaviour traits….. Freezing NAS server and SP reboots. Not often, but...
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Dell EMC Unity – Bulk enable Advanced Dedup after upgrade
One of the shortcomings in an otherwise really good UI in the Unity platform is the inability to make bulk changes to many objects. While making the changes are easy, applying it to many or even...
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VMware vSphere 6.5 – Datastore Expansion: VMFS version UI Bug
A “what the…? ” moment, expanding a datastore and the GUI indicated that after expansion, the VMFS version will be VMFS 6….. As we all know, upgrading the VMFS version of a datastore to VMFS 6...
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VMware & Dell EMC Unity – Restore VM/Datastore from array snapshots
Some people say that snapshots are not backups. While that’s a claim with dubious merit, they certainly can form part of your backup and data protection plans. We all know snapshots are cool. Array...
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VMware ESXi – PowerCLI for bulk vSwitch changes
The reward for effort when scripting is almost always worth it. Today I had the task of removing a particular AntiVirus product from a 36 host VDI cluster. Part of this requires the removal of...
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