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Multicloud Strategy and APEX Portfolio announcements - DTW 2023

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Last year at Dell Technologies World (DTW 2022), Dell announced their Multicloud by Design strategy, detailing their vision of simplifying the deployment and management of customers' multicloud environments with a consistent operational experience, so that customers can innovate without barriers. In 2022, the primary focus of the Multicloud by Design strategy was on Project Alpine - in 2023, Dell Technologies have doubled down on their Multicloud by Design strategy with a glutton of multicloud announcements and expanded the strategy further to consist of three primary elements:                1. Ground to Cloud                2. Cloud to Ground               3. SaaS Portal Figure 1. Delivering an APEX Multicloud Experience Now delving into each of these categories... 1.      Ground to Cloud - Multicloud Storage (+ Data Protection) This layer of the Multicloud by Design strategy takes Dell's industry leading storage and data protection software, where we have traditionally
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VxRail 7.0.450 - new GEOS Video Update (GVU)

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The VxRail Video Update (VVU) is back! Well sort of. Join myself, Curtis Edwards and Benedikt Mayer as we discuss the latest updates to VxRail. Check us out and spread the word.  #Iwork4dell #VxRail Opinions expressed in this article are entirely my own and may not be representative of the views of Dell Technologies.
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VxRail release 7.0.450 - VxRail upgrade planning enhancements

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With Dell’s VxRail 7.0.450 release today   ( 4th May 2023 ) , a ream of new features and enhancements are being introduced that will bring a better overall lifecycle management experience to VxRail customers. I've listed the primary features of this release below, but for the purpose of this post I am going to home in on the LCM enhancements, in particular those that are going to help customers with upgrade planning and the upgrades themselves.  What's new in VxRail appliance software 7.0.450: Dynamic AppsON with VxRail and Dell PowerStore Run PowerStore LCM from VxRail Manager Reporting of Dell PowerStore code version External Storage VxRail dynamic nodes support the PowerMax 2500 and 8500 storage arrays LCM enhancements Enhanced the frequency of LCM precheck updates in VxRail Improved and streamlined upgrade planning and precheck remediation Added support for smart bundle download Enhanced compliance reports with more information included Tighter integration of GP
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VxRail 8.0.000 & vSAN Express Storage Architecture (vSAN ESA) - next evolution of vSAN architecture now available for VxRail

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VMware's vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA Since vSAN original storage architecture (OSA) was launched as a software-defined storage product by VMware, it has always been a two-tier architecture constructed of 1 - 5 disk groups - with each disk group then having one tier of dedicated caching devices, looking after the performance of your cluster, and then your second tier having a layer of dedicated capacity drives.               Figure 1.  vSAN OSA                        With vSphere release 8.0, customers will now have another option during cluster deployment for their 3-node, 2-node and stretched VxRail clusters with VMware’s new vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA).  Figure 2. vSAN ESA selection during initial cluster configuration vSAN ESA is a new single-tier architecture where all the drives in your cluster will contribute towards both cache and capacity requirements, with a new log-structured file system that takes advantage of the improved capabilities of modern hardware, driving b
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Amazon takes you anywhere, EKS Anywhere, with Dell Technologies

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With this post, my aim is to give you some insight into our recent partnerships with Amazon that sees Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) experience being brought from the public cloud, right into your data centre, with Dell Technologies infrastructure. But before we start looking at the ins and outs of Amazon’s EKS Anywhere offering, let’s first take a look at containers and container orchestration. Containers Microservices and microservices architecture are now the go-to standard for developing modern software. Microservices are where applications and components of a solution are loosely coupled – so if one component goes down, the remaining components can go about their day without being impacted. Containers are built on microservices architecture – with containers providing a standard way of bundling together an application’s code and dependencies into a single object or package. They are isolated, with multiple containers sharing the same Host OS and if required, can al
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