Dell
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Storage
Dell EMC UnityVSA storage appliance installation and configuration
One of the great resources for home lab environments is vendor released virtual storage appliance software solutions that emulate models of hardware that is typically found in the enterprise. Getting your hands on the actual hardware appliances can be difficult…
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vSphere 6.5
Manage Dell RAID in VMware ESXi 6.5 with PERCCLI
We have covered the Avago/LSI StorCLI in past posts and how extremely useful it can be loaded on ESXi servers that have DAS volumes being presented with an Avago/LSI RAID controller. The advantage of loading/using the Avago/LSI StorCLI utility is…
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Networking
Dell Openmanage Network Manager 6.2 Appliance Install and Configure
For those not familiar, Dell has a neat network management tool that can manage network equipment and others. ย This is available by way of an OVA appliance download as well as other installs. ย Let’s take a look at theย Dell Openmanage…
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Networking
Configure Dell Nseries switch stack
A quick little how to post on creating a stack between Dell Nseries switches. ย For the purposes of this post, the stack was created using (2) Dell Nseries 4032F 10G switches. There is just a small amount of configuration that…
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Virtualization
Upgrade AppAssure 5.4.3 to Rapid Recovery 6.0.1
For those of you that don’t know, Dell’s AppAssure product has been rebranded as Rapid Recovery. ย With 6.0.1 being released, and touting some very worthy features, I decided it was time to upgrade. ย In this post we will take a…
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Virtualization
AppAssure Multiple SCSI controllers after export to VM
So far in using AppAssure in several environments, it works pretty well and seems to shine with VM to VM exports. ย It does like most backup software though have a few quirks to deal with. ย If you are an AppAssure…
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Networking
How to Setup Port Mirroring on Dell Nseries switch
The ability to mirror a port is a very crucial part of troubleshooting especially when you need to see traffic that is ingressing and egressing from a specific port that a host is connected to. ย The best way to see…
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Networking
Dell NSeries Switch Basic configuration cheat sheet
In working recently with a few Dell NSeries switches on the bench and in production, I have created a simple cheat sheet for myself with configuration commands I find myself needing most in tweaking and configuring the Dell switches. ย I…
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Networking
Basic Dell Powerconnect Nseries iSCSI switch configuration
Recently, I got my hands on a couple of Dell PowerConnect 8132fย switches for a client to configure for iSCSI traffic for a 3-node VMware cluster that was being implemented for server consolidation, etc. ย I stepped through the basic configuration for…
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vSphere 6
Install Dell OMSA 8.1 in ESXi 6.0 and add to OME
Recently, after upgrading a Dell Cluster to vSphere 6.0, one of the tasks that I wanted to accomplish was to install the new Open Manage Server Administrator or OMSA in my newly upgraded Dell R620’s and then add those servers…
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