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Introduction With the announcement of Dell’s Project Alpine at DT World in May 2022 ( DT World Project Alpine blog ), there has been lots of chatter and focus on Dell Technologies and their ‘all-in’ multi-cloud journey.   As part of Dell's Multi-cloud by Design approach, Project Alpine will see us bringing our Dell ISG storage software (specifically PowerFlex, PowerStore, PowerScale and ObjectScale) to the three major public clouds - AWS, Azure and GCP. This storage software, traditionally tethered to Dell hardware, will be decoupled from the hardware and moved into the public cloud marketplaces ready for purchase. Ultimately, customers will be able to consume Dell storage by having these virtual storage solutions running on cloud-based infrastructure, think EC2 instances in AWS – with the same look and feel of the on-prem version of your Dell storage solution.   From an operations perspective, Dell’s engineering teams will have done all the grafting behind the scenes portin...

  Overview For your standard VxRail cluster you need a minimum of three nodes for each cluster deployment (yes, yes, there is also a 2-node option) – but what if you already have a VxRail environment and want to deploy a VxRail system to an Edge location? That is…an Edge location where a two or three-node cluster would be surplus to customer workload requirements? *Cue drum roll…* Enter VxRail Satellite nodes. VxRail Satellite nodes became available from VxRail software release version 7.0.320 and, in a nutshell, each satellite node is a single VxRail node that will run vSphere and have the same VxRail HCI System software that runs on our VxRail Dynamic node and VxRail with vSAN offerings. They are ideal for Edge locations where compute, memory or storage-intensive applications are not required. Satellite nodes do not get added to any clusters; however they do require that an existing VxRail (with vSAN) cluster has been deployed. Each satellite node will be assigned a single IP ma...