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Site visit to VCE
I recently had the pleasure of spending some time at the EMC Factory in Cork, Ireland where vBlocks are assembled for the EMEA region. The full name as shown at the entrance below is the ‘EMC Ireland...
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Whats in a vBlock?
I know there is lots of information out there about vBlocks and whats in them, but has anyone actually seen a picture? Shown below is a built vBlock, showing all the main components including Cisco...
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vSphere 5, vShield 5, Trend DS 8 (vBlock 300HX) Upgrade
Call this the perfect storm upgrade. If you have to perform a vSphere 5, vShield 5 and Trend DS 8 upgrade (whether or not you happen to have a vBlock 300HX), read the following for what TO do and what...
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SIOC is fully supported by SRM 5…er…except for planned migrations!
I was having some issues with SIOC and SRM 5 Planned Migrations. I noticed that my planned migration were failing when SIOC was enabled. This got me thinking to whether SIOC is even supported with SRM...
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vBlock Tip: Set VMFS3.MaxHeapSizeMB to 256MB on all ESXi hosts
This is the sort of issue I came across this week that you would expect VCE to make a de facto standard in the vBlock. Why? Because the performance hit is negligible (a slight increase in additional...
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vBlock Tip: vSphere 5, SIOC, EMC FAST VP and Storage DRS
If you’ve got a vBlock its most likely you’ve got an EMC array with EMC FAST VP and hopefully by now you’ve upgraded to vBlock Matrix 2.5.0 and you’re using vSphere 5. If not, what are you waiting for?...
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vBlock Tip: Increase Cisco 1000V Max Ports from default of 32
Another post in the vBlock tip series… VCE use static binding on the Cisco 1000V and this combined with the default of 32 ports per VLAN means most people will soon run out of ports on their DV port...
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VCE release latest Compatibility Matrix with vSphere 5.1
With VCE announcing back in August that they were fully supporting VMware’s vCloud Suite 5.1, I guess its no surprise that the latest VCE matrix with vSphere 5.1 has just been released last week… But...
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VCE vBlock – 1st Year in Review
Well we have just passed a year of vBlock ownership and the last year has passed rather painlessly. Our vBlock was one of the first out there, delivered in November 2011. I wanted to provide some pros...
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