Dell Management Plug-in for vSphere
With our ever growing complexity within our virtualization environment, it’s getting a bit un-wieldy to manage all the disparate pieces (physical servers, virtual servers, storage, network, etc.)....
View ArticleTech Field Day 7 – Austin, TX
Just got word Tuesday that I’ll have the honor to be a delegate for Gestalt IT’s Tech Field Day 7 focusing on Datacenter IT Infrastructure. The event seeks to bring together some of the industries...
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New Dell EqualLogic Arrays
Dell unveiled an update to 2 of their EqualLogic PS series array platforms today along with their first sub-$10k array. The new PS6100 and PS4100 series arrays are a refresh of their PS6000 and PS4000...
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Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter Review
Ok, I’ve had the plug-in running for a few weeks and have gone through some of the primary functions of it (firmware updates, inventory, monitoring, warranty retrieval, create hardware profile for...
View ArticleDell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter Update 1 Released
Today, Dell released Update 1 to the 1.0.1 version of their Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter. The biggest highlight among the fixes and changes would be the added support of ESX5 (vCenter 5). If...
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Mmm. New SAN smell
I racked my 2 new EqualLogic PS6100E SANs today, furthering my belief that storage is sexy.
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Downgrade firmware on an Dell ESXi host
An issue has come up on one of my Dell PowerEdge R610 ESXi hosts that I wanted to attempt a downgrade of the firmware on my Broadcom BCM5709 network adapters for troubleshooting, but was not finding...
View ArticleDell Acquires AppAssure
Dell announced their acquisition of AppAssure today, a software based enterprise backup solution for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. They feature both local (DAS, SAN, remote disk) and...
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Dell Launch Event – 12G and more
This is a repost of a writeup that I orriginally did for DellTechCenter.com This past Monday (2/27/2012), I had the opportunity to attend Dell’s San Francisco event, led by CEO Michael Dell, VPs...
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