A guest blog post by Jodey Hogeland Dell Technologies commitment to sustainability is a core focus whether it is consumer / end user solutions (laptops and monitors, etc.) or core IT data center infrastructure like enterprise data storage, severs, and networking. In fact, it is “At the core of everything we do.” Dell PowerStore is a critical part…
A guest post by Erik Zandboer Powerstore Metro Dell has has metro support embedded into the Powerstore platform for some time now, but lacked support of a witness. I often get into discussions where people tend to think that not having a witness can cause split-brain scenarios. Actually it won’t, but there are some implications…
A guest post by Jodey Hogeland Introduction Dell Technologies and VMware have had a very collaborative relationship throughout the years, and it is not slowing down. For evidence of this, you need not look any further than Dell PowerStore as a prime example. Since hitting the market in 2020, PowerStore has had innovative VMware integration…
A guest post by Erik Zandboer In the last episodes we failed an entire datacenter with and without a witness. This time we will be failing a PowerStore array only, and leave all ESXi hosts running. This should trigger an APD (All Paths Down) scenario in the impacted datacenter, and we should see VMware High…
A guest post by Jodey Hogeland & Michael Aharon This past May at Dell Technologies World, PowerStore OS 3.5 was announced. With this software update, Dell PowerStore gained several key capabilities and over the next several weeks I will overview these new capabilities with a bit more technical detail. Joining me for this technical update…
We have just released the 3.6 of Dell PowerStore and, it’s a big release for our customers and us The Witness Server is a stand-alone 3rd component, ideally residing in a 3rd data center and used to help determine which array should survive in the event of a failure. Witness can also be known as…
There is no question that we live in an ever-changing world – especially for you in IT. According to Dell’s own research [The Global Data Protection Index (GDPI) Snapshot a survey of 1000 IT decision makers from organizations around the world], almost half (48%) of organizations have suffered a cyber attack in the last 12…
A guest post by Jodey Hogeland & Michael Aharon Let’s continue our mini-series with Michael Aharon and a review of PowerStore 3.5 features. In this article we will overview the new capability of backing up PowerStore data directly to a Dell PowerProtect DD series. Within PowerStore, this feature is referred to as Remote Backup. The primary use case…
A guest post by Jodey Hogeland Why did the Cyber criminal get away? Because he ransomware! That joke makes me laugh every time but in the case of real world enterprise IT infrastructure, cyber defense is no laughing matter. In my role as an engineering technologist / evangelist Dell Technologies I have the privilege of meeting with…
Dell Technologies #PowerStore and #CloudIQ are creating an innovative ecosystem that brings advanced autonomous storage and analytics to a companies fingertips. CloudIQ is a SaaS based offering that comes with Dell datacenter products with a current ProSupport or ProSupport Plus support contract at no additional cost. CloudIQ is a powerful #AIOps tool – a term coined by Gartner a while back –…
