Category: Dell PowerEdge

Aria Blog Dell PowerEdge VMware
13. December 2024

Add Dell PowerEdge Servers to VMware Aria Operations

In my previous blog post, I described how to prepare your Dell PowerEdge servers for integration with VMware Aria Operations for comprehensive dashboards and monitoring. This time we will talk about how to configure/add them to Aria Operations. First, get the Dell PowerEdge Management Pack from Dell/Broadcom and then log into your Aria Operations instance. Go to Administration -> Integrations -> Repository. There you will […]

Aria Blog Dell Dell PowerEdge
12. December 2024

Configuring SNMPv3 on Dell iDRAC9 for VMware Aria Operations

I am currently working a lot with VMware Aria Operations and the matching Dell Management Packs that are available. One of the most interesting is the integration of PowerEdge Servers, from which you can view various alarms about: These are exactly the informations I want to integrate into Aria Operations to get/build a dedicated dashboard. In order to send these informations to Aria Operations, SNMPv3 […]

Blog Dell Dell PowerEdge Dell VxRail
18. October 2024

How to kill a Dell iDRAC Session of another User

Now one or the other will ask themselves, why should I kill an iDRAC session of another user, well, if you know the admin credentials of the iDRAC anyway and the colleague has e.g. forgotten to close his iDRAC session and has gone on lunch break and you absolutely want to complete the RASR process of the VxRail – then it might make sense to […]

Blog Dell Dell PowerEdge Home Lab Stage VIII
7. February 2024

irgNET – LAB 8.0

I know it’s been a long time, almost 1 year (in 2 days), so it’s time for another HomeLab update. In my last HomeLab update I told you about my VMware SD-WAN / SASE solution, this time we’ll take another look at my Data Protection Server. Because I replaced it with a Dell PowerEdge T430 in November 2023. You can find the documentation of my […]

Blog Dell Dell PowerEdge ESXi VMware
21. August 2023

Lost connectivity to the device naa.61xxxxxx backing the boot filesystem 

Today I noticed that my ESXi 04 displays the following information: Lost connectivity to the device naa.61xxxxxx backing the boot filesystem /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.61xxxxxx. As a result, host configuration changes will not be saved to persistent storage. So let us open a SSH session to have a look at the mentioned device by using following command: As we can see, there are some Failed Operations, to get […]

Dell PowerEdge Home Lab Stage VII
4. January 2023

irgNET – LAB 7.0 U2

Welcome to my next HomeLab Update. Today we will talk about a new Family Member for the irgNET Datacenter. Since irgNET-Lab 5.0 update; I had a HPE ML310e v2 Gen8 as my backup/redundancy server. As the requirements for my VMware vSAN environment grew, the backup size increased and the 4 LFF slots were no longer enough. So I needed an alternative that was up to […]

Dell Dell PowerEdge Home Lab Stage VII VMware vSAN
7. December 2022

irgNET – LAB 7.0 U1

As I mentioned in the last HomeLab Update, I will post all upgrades in my infrastructre monthly from now on. This time we will talk about the expansion of my VMware vSAN OSA ROBO 2-Node Cluster. My personal VMware vSAN journey started about 1 year ago: Back that time I had a usable capacity of about 3 TB, over time I have converted my single […]

Dell Dell PowerEdge Home Lab Stage VII
15. November 2022

irgNET – LAB 7.0

It is HomeLab time again, this update comes with a BIG announcement/change! It is been a while, the last update was in August. Let us get started: I was able to get 3 Dell PowerEdge R730 servers. As you know, a General Availability of vSphere 8 has been announced. My HPE DL380 Gen8 servers and my HPE ML310 Gen8 v2 are getting on in years […]