Category: Dell

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 […]

Blog Dell Dell VxRail
4. July 2023

Missing information for the node hosting Dell VxRail Manager in the input JSON file

A customer called me during a Dell VxRail 4 Node deployment and asked me what he could do about the following error message: *Sorry for the poor quality picture. 🙂 There are various situations where the Loudmouth service (IPv6 multicast) of the Dell VxRail cannot be used, e.g. the switches do not support this feature. In this case, the individual ESXi hosts must be added […]

Blog Dell Dell PowerProtect
3. April 2023

Dell PowerProtect – Data Manager & DDVE – the best Data Protection Solution for the vSphere Universe?

I was a all-time Veeam Backup user, the free 10 VM Community Edition is great for Homelabs and (really) small Datacenter or Witness sites. You know how it is, both our customers and ourselves, want to discover new technologies every now and then. Right there, I came across Dell PowerProtect, which is based on the very successful EMC² DataDomain appliance. There will surely be one […]

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 […]

Dell News
31. May 2022

Dell Technologies World 2022

Today I want to tell you about my unique experience from my first participation of the Dell Technologies World 2022 in Las Vegas. It was like a theme park for passionated technologists. First, let me start with my incredible view from my hotel room – wow: Right after the breakfast, I came across one of our Computacenter banners: After that, the first session – Dell […]

Blog Dell VMware
24. February 2022

Dell EMC PowerEdge Server TPM Support on vSphere 7.0

TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module. It is a chip that provides basic security functions on a hardware basis. It can be used to ensure the integrity of a system and platforms such as computers and servers or other electronic devices like smartphones. The chip is protected against manipulation by security mechanisms and, for example, generates, provides, stores or controls the use of cryptographic keys. […]

Blog Dell Dell VxRail
2. July 2021

How to RASR Reset Dell EMC VxRail 7.0 Node

There are several reasons why you have to factory reset a VxRail node, for example: Here is an easy step by step guide – how to RASR reset a Dell EMC VxRail 7.0 node. Before we start please remember that you are going to take the node back to factory reset. Do not perform a RASR reset unless it is needed. Fast Steps: Step by […]

Blog Dell
2. July 2021

Dell EMC VxRail 7.0 – Useful Log File Information

The following log files can be accessed either via console or SSH to VxRail Manager. Monitor Dell EMC VxRail bring-up logs: dayone.log , short.term.log & firstboot.log: dayone.log – detailed information in relation to initial first run configuration. (/var/log/microservice_log/dayone.log) short.term.log – micro services related information. (/var/log/microservice_log/short.term.log) Note: short.term.log is a good starting point for all microservices related information. For specific microservice log detail filter by the microservices name for example: firstboot.log […]