Consistent LUN ID

Here's one of those old issues that seems to keep coming up - consistent LUN IDs with VMware. As this discussion has been around since VMware introduced vMotion, I'll be brief with the history. I'm going to just talk about LUN IDs from the VMware side here. On the PowerMax you can use something called...

vRA 8.4+ catalog item issues

We've all hit our share of bugs, and normally I don't highlight them, but I've seen this one a number of times internally and now at a customer. Best to mention it, therefore, in hopes it saves some customers time debugging. My experience with the bug occurred when I upgraded my vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Plug-in...

The Dell EMC PowerMax and VMware vSphere Configuration Guide

For those customers running on PowerMax, I've published the new The Dell EMC PowerMax and VMware vSphere Configuration Guide which is the replacement for Using Dell EMC VMAX and PowerMax Storage in VMware vSphere Environments. The new TechBook only covers PowerMax integration/best practices with VMware. While the previous doc was over 400 pages, the new...

vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Plug-in for PowerMax 1.2.4

I meant to get this update out earlier but holidays got in the way. On December 14th we released the vRO PowerMax Plug-in version 1.2.3 which included support for vRealize Orchestrator 8.5. The main purpose of the release was to support new array versions and vRO 8.5 but there was one new feature: Adapted to...