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  • Blog Post: gPXE and network deployment of operating systems

    This blog is written by Shiva Katta and Krishnaprasad K from Dell Hypervisor Engineering team. This blog talks about a specific problem and it’s solutions while using gPXE for operating system deployment over the network. What's gPXE? Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) provides the...
  • Blog Post: SR-IOV in VMware ESXi

    This blog post is written by Amit Sharma, Shiva Katta and Krishnaprasad K from Dell Hypervisor Engineering team. What is SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization)? SR-IOV is the specification created and maintained by PCI SIG. It allows a single PCIe device to appear to be as multiple separate PCIe...
  • Blog Post: Dell at VMworld 2012 TechTuesday Chat

    Join DellTechCenter.com on August 7th at 3PM Central Time as we cover Dell at VMworld 2012 . The URL for DellTechCenter.com's Tech Tuesday Chat . Our featured guest is: Jeff McNaught , Executive Director, Marketing and Chief Strategy Officer, Cloud Client Computing at Dell, @wysejeff. ...
  • Blog Post: Configuring iDRAC vFlash as a VMware ESXi VMKernel Coredump Collector

    This blog is written by Amit Sharma and Krishnaprasad K from Dell Hypervisor Engineering team. When VMware ESXi PSODs (Purple Screen of Death), we require core dump from the failing system to analyze the failure. During a purple diagnostic screen, VMware ESX/ESXi attempts to write a VMkernel coredump...
  • Blog Post: Red Hat Enterprise virtualization (RHEV 3.0) works on Dell PowerEdge servers

    Posted on behalf of Gireesha US from Dell Linux Engineering team Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0 is supported on shipping PowerEdge 11th generation and 12th generation servers (2-socket and 4-socket servers). It has been validated and certified on the list of supported Dell PowerEdge...
  • Blog Post: Upgrade from Dell customized VMware ESXi 5.0 to a later update using Dell Customized ESXi 5 ISO fails

    This blog post is written by Kiran Poluri and Krishnaprasad K from Dell Hypervisor Engineering team. When upgrading from Dell customized VMware ESXi 5.0 to a later update using Dell customized VMware ESXi 5 ISO image, it fails with an error message as shown below. This error occurs since...
  • Blog Post: VMware ESXi boot failure with UEFI Boot Mode

    This blog post is written by Shiva Katta and Krishnaprasad K UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) defines a new model for the interface between Operating System and Platform Firmware. This consists of data tables related to platform information, boot and runtime service calls that are consumed...
  • Blog Post: Custom drivers addition during VMware ESX Classic 4.x installation fails on Dell PowerEdge Servers

    This blog is written by Rohith Radhakrishnan from Dell Hypervisor Engineering team. This blog is specific to VMware ESX 4.x Classic Edition only. The common method of installing VMware ESX 4.x classic edition on servers is by installing it manually using a CD ISO image. This blog focuses on a failure...
  • Blog Post: Enabling Intel TXT on Dell PowerEdge Servers with VMware ESXi

    This blog post is written by Shiva Katta & Krishnaprasad K Intel TXT (Trusted Execution Technology) is a hardware security solution that protects IT infrastructures against software based attacks by validating the behavior of key components with in a server during startup. For VMware ESXi,...
  • Blog Post: Dell News: How Efficient Enterprises can really do more with EqualLogic

    If you haven’t already heard the news, Dell is launching a new campaign today (Nov. 1) highlighting how EqualLogic enables you to transform the way you store data. So what are some ways to transform the way you store data? How about automation or scaling architecture and hypervisor and application...
  • Blog Post: EqualLogic User Conference Thoughts and VMware Data Drive Discussion

    Whoohoo! My very first blog post! This is exciting I tell you what! So first, some of the disclaimer-ish stuff: I work for Dell as a Product Solutions Engineer in the Nashua Design Center working on VMware integration with the EqualLogic PS Series SAN products. The views and discussions on this blog...
  • Blog Post: EqualLogic User Conference 2010 Sneak Peak

    The EqualLogic user conference is all set to kick-off next week on October 4th. The session schedule is out and let me tell you it is packed with tons of great topics. Let me give you a sneak peak into some of the session topics. We are going to kick things off on Monday with a Hands-on lab covering...
  • Blog Post: EqualLogic User Conference 2010 Reasons to Attend

    The following is a quick video from Matt Vogt an attendee from the last user conference telling us a little about why he is going again to the EqualLogic User Conference . Matt recently purchased a EqualLogic PS6000XV and PS4000. He is now looking to get information about replication, Auto Snapshot Manager...
  • Blog Post: EqualLogic User Conference Networking Session Preview

    Here's a quick video where Tony Ansley outlines one of the many reasons to attend the EqualLogic User Conference in San Diego this October: Tons of great content! Tony's session at the last conference was a lively one with great feedback from the attendees.
  • Blog Post: Tour of VMworld 2010 Hands-on Labs with Irish Spring

    On the first day of VMworld 2010 I ran into two old friends, Eric Hardcastle and Dave Rollins. They are two of the VMware employees running the hands-on labs. Last year the labs were quite impressive using racks and racks of equipment with a private cloud to handle all the lab traffic. This year, the...
  • Blog Post: Trust Me, You Don't Want To Miss the Next EqualLogic User Group Event

    This is one point I don't have to try too hard to make. I mean, it's an EqualLogic USER Conference ! Oh, and it's in San Diego for crying out loud! The last EqualLogic User Group conference was a tremendous success and took place in Dallas just this past March. It was a top notch experience...
  • Blog Post: New Features in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

    The following post was authored by Peter Tsai of Dell's Server OS Engineering team. With the recent public beta release of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, the general public can now test out Dynamic Memory and Remote FX, two newly introduced features that will benefit Hyper-V users. We’ve...
  • Blog Post: A Glance at the IDSDM Card

    The following contribution is from Dell's Ryan Putman, Portfolio Systems Engineering, Quy Hoang, Advanced Engineering, and Chad Berry, Modular Development Beginning with our 10G servers, Dell worked with virtualization software partners to embed the hypervisor into the server. Dell servers can...
  • Blog Post: Microsoft Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere 4 Performance Series

    This blog post was written by Todd Muirhead, VMware Staff Engineer from the Performance R&D team. I worked with the Dell TechCenter last year on some testing with Exchange 2007 on PowerEdge M710 blade servers and EqualLogic iSCSI storage. The Exchange environment was all virtualized on VMware...
  • Blog Post: EqualLogic V5 Firmware and the new XVS Hybrid SSD Configurations

    The EqualLogic Hybrid SSD PS6000 XVS and PS6010XVS models as well as V5 firmware were part of today's Virtual Era announcements . We here in DellTechCenter were able to get early access to the V5 Firmware gave it a quick run through in the video below. I thought I'd go into a bit more detail...
  • Blog Post: Not Your Daddy’s Server OS

    The following post was written by David Troeger from the PG Enterprise Software Solutions team. Now that it’s 2010, I’m sure many of us in the technology industry are reviewing the milestones of the last decade and wondering if the next ten years will bring as much change as the last ten...
  • Blog Post: Winner Winner, vChicken Dinner: DellTechCenter VMworld 2010 Caption Contest

    We are pleased to announce that the DellTechCenter Community members have voted Shane Fontenot's Caption Contest entry as the winner of the VMworld 2010 trip! Shane is a System Administrator at ACME Truck Line, Inc and a recent transplant to central Texas. According to his bio on twitter, Shane...
  • Blog Post: PowerConnect and EqualLogic Demo Videos from Dell Interop Booth

    This year's Interop in Las Vegas 2010 is coming to an end. I covered some of the activities in blogs yesterday and the day before . Today had a few sessions, and a little bit more time in the Expo center. Some interesting things I found watching the various blogs and twitter streams was a fairly...
  • Blog Post: Clouds, Booths, and more Great Sessions: Day 2 at Interop 2010

    Yesterday , I mentioned that attendance at this year's Interop event in Las Vegas seemed pretty good. I was on target -- 30% paid attendance spike over last year! It is definitely a positive and upbeat show, as Rob Adler points out in the # Interop twitter stream. Another interesting item found watching...
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