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...

vRO Plug-in for PowerMax 1.2.2 – vRO 8.4

The latest release of the vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Plug-in for PowerMax 1.2.2 is now available for download here. No new features in this one, but we added support for vRO 8.4. I know I've had my share of queries from customers and internal sales about vRO 8.4 support so here it is.

Custom create volumes workflow in vRO PowerMax Plug-in

Our REST API is quite versatile and as you may have recently seen, we continue to take advantage of the capabilities it has via the PowerMax Plug-in; but of course it can't do everything. One of our customers recently requested the ability to create devices on the array without having to add them to a...

vRO Plug-in for Dell EMC PowerMax Version 1.2

Version 1.2 of the PowerMax vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Plug-in is now available for download from our support site or the VMware Marketplace. For those new to vRO or the plug-in, the PowerMax Plug-in allows users to run workflows using the REST API (part of Unisphere for PowerMax) to automate both provisioning and protection, among other...

PowerMax vRO Plug-in v1.1 – SRDF workflows

The next release of the vRO PowerMax plug-in is already here (officially the vRO Plug-in for PowerMax). If you missed the inaugural release, I wrote about it previously at this link. The primary feature of this release is SRDF support. Before getting into that, let's start with the "upgrade" process and do some other housekeeping...

New VMware releases – vRealize and vSphere 6.7 U2

VMware dropped a bunch of Q2 updates for vRealize and vSphere 6.7 yesterday so I wanted to note the current interoperability with our integrations. vRealize Updates Starting with vRealize, these new versions are now available: vRealize Log Insight 4.8 vRealize Automation 7.6 vRealize Orchestrator 7.6 vRealize Operations 7.5 Beginning with vRealize Log Insight, our Dell...

SPBM update for vRA – VVols

I wanted to let you know about an update to Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) with vRealize Automation. If you are in this space, you may have read my post on how to use VMware's SPBM package with Virtual Volumes. At a high level the package allowed you to use vCenter configured storage policies when...

vRO Plugin for PowerMax – vRA Automation

Though I've covered this previously with the other plugin, I thought it worthwhile to include it again for the PowerMax one, particularly as it supports vRA 7.5 so the interface is different from the other write-up. As a reminder I am using a simple vRA deployment - vApp and IAAS server - and a single...