There is a little known tool for customers to create Dell EMC procedures that are built to best practice specifications called SolVe Online (Yes, the “V” is capitalized for some reason 😉 ). SolVe Online is a great tool for walking you through how to do a task and have KB articles and things to… Read More »
Dell EMC’s VP of Technology for PowerStore, XtremIO & VxFLEX has written an insanely detailed 15 part (so far) series on the features and functionality of the new PowerStore storage appliance. It blows my mind how thorough and complete this series is. Thank you Itzik for the education! What Is PowerStore – Part 1, Overview… Read More »
PowerStore Info Hub: Product Documentation & Videos This page features a curated list of PowerStore documents and videos that enable you to securely install and use your PowerStore cluster. Repository for all listed below can be found HERE. *Note: I’m not going to provide the link to each individual white paper as they will be updated… Read More »
The groundbreaking new PowerStore family eliminates traditional tradeoffs in performance, scalability, and storage efficiency, with a data-centric, intelligent, and adaptable infrastructure that transforms and mobilizes both traditional and modern workloads. Learn more by following the link, or you can find many videos in the list below to guide you or your learning of what PowerStore… Read More »
CloudIQ collects data related to system health, configuration, capacity and performance from Connectrix products that are being monitored. This data collection process occurs every 5 minutes and is performed by the CloudIQ Collector. Once this data has been collected, it is transferred back to CloudIQ for processing by using Secure Remote Services. For Connectrix data… Read More »
On December 9th, Dell Technologies announced the Dell EMC XtremIO v6.3 software release. Dell EMC XtremIO X2 v6.3, the newest version of the XtremIO software, builds upon those key attributes and can help accelerate IT transformation and data center modernization. Here’s a few highlights of what’s new in 6.3: • Synchronous replication: Provides increased flexibility… Read More »
Have you ever needed to log into a web application to manage your hardware and the application stopped working cause you update your Java to a version that is now incompatible with the web application. I can’t think of anyone I know that hasn’t had this problem and needed to resort to CLI to get… Read More »
I was working with AMP this afternoon and thought of a question a customer asked me about troubleshooting using saved flows. A great way of keeping the flows together and working with them over and over is to add the flows to a Collection. A Collection is made up of flow filters that you have… Read More »
Fabric Vision is an awesome set of tools for managing your SAN. I’ve found that most customers are not utilizing it as much as they should. At minimum, MAPS (Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite) should be enabled so that you are aware of what is being found in your SAN that needs attention. We typically… Read More »
Having trouble knowing where to start with enabling MAPS (Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite)? Start with the new MAPS Quick Start Guide. Download Link To Guide: MAPS Quick Start Guide