VMware released vSphere 7.0 on April 2th, and following the commitment that Dell Technologies has to support on VxRail a new version of vSphere within 30 days of VMware GA… today, April 28th we have RTW (Released to Web) VxRail 7.0.
Continue reading “VxRail 7.0 General Available to the Web!”Month: April 2020
VxRail differences with vSphere 7 vLCM
As vSphere evolves in functionality in terms of lifecycle management, even internally at Dell, I see confusion sometimes regarding the value of VxRail.
I started to hear about this since late 2018, when vSphere Update Manager (VUM) with vSphere 6.7 U1 started to also update drivers/firmware for the storage controllers for selected vendors, and now with vSphere 7.0 and the new vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) even the name makes things more confusing.
I installed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) this weekend!
Good morning/afternoon/evening, these days have been hectic, for good or for bad during this pandemic situation, there’s a lot of work! Days full of Zoom calls are good to continue having that contact with our customers, but bad for blogging. 🙂
Nevertheless, I couldn’t wait to share my experience installing in my home lab Vmware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, that is GA since last Thursday 4/9/2020. I have to admit that I did my first tries installing it manually without using Cluster API / Cluster API Provider vSphere (CAPI/CAPV), and I was unsuccessful; but using now the TKG CLI it’s a breeze.
Continue reading “I installed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) this weekend!”Deploy Dell EMC Isilon CSI Driver for Kubernetes
In this post I’m going to explain how I configured my homelab to integrate a Kubernetes cluster with the Dell EMC Isilon CSI driver. I had to create a new cluster as the plugin has specific requirements:
- support for Kubernetes 1.14
- supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 host operating system
- supports Isilon OneFS versions 8.1 and 8.2