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Reading Time: 2 minutesRVTools 4.7.1 is a Windows .NET 4.7.2 application which uses VMware vSphere Management SDK 8.0 and CIS REST API to display information about your virtual environments. RVTools has been a widely used utility for VMware environments for the past 15 years, helping users make accurate decisions around planning, deploying, and managing complex workloads. It has been voted a top VMware utility many times by independent parties. Since 2008, RVTools has been downloaded more than 2 million times and is a ubiquitous utility, familiar and trusted by VMware administrators. There is no fee to use RVTools, […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesAt the last Nutanix .NEXT event there was a big announce: Nutanix and Dell Technologies collaborate again on new joint solutions for hybrid multi-cloud. If you remember, 10 years ago, there was an announce of a Dell & Nutanix alliance to provide the Dell XC Series of Web-scale Converged Appliances. Somehow the Dell vxRail success killed the XC appliances, but now (maybe after the Broadcom acquisition) there can be again an joined solution between the two companies.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDell Technologies World – happening at The Venetian in Las Vegas, May 20–23, 2024 – is a showcase of all the ways we’re using technology and AI to accelerate from ideas to innovation. At Dell Technologies World you’ll connect with industry leaders and IT professionals to share insights and information, get a jump on the latest tech trends and create actionable strategies for your business.

Reading Time: 2 minutesRVTools technology was just acquired by Dell Technologies from its original founder, Rob de Veij. Rob is still supporting the program as part of the Dell team. Dell is committed to keeping RVTools available as a no cost public download, so it can continue to be an open asset for the technical community. RVTools has been a widely used utility for VMware environments for the past 15 years, helping users make accurate decisions around planning, deploying, and managing virtual infrastructures.

Reading Time: 4 minutesData Domain (or Power Protect if you prefer the new term) needs some free available space to manage its filesystem and all the mtree(s). By default there is a critical alert if the used space exeed 90% of the total space. The name of the alert is “SpaceExceedsCriticalThreshold” and cannot be changed from the GUI.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe upgrade procedure for DellEMC PowerStore X from version 2.0 to version 2.1 is a little tricky. The Dell EMC PowerStore Software Upgrade Guide explains the steps, but still there are some issue that you should mange. Because you have also to upgrade the ESXi from 6.7 to 7.0, but before this, you need also to resize the VMFS datastore.

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you try to upgrade the PowerStore OS and you get this error message: Prestage failed on appliance XXXX with the following message: The system encountered unexpected backend errors. Please contact support. (0xE04030010001) Then you may don’t need to contact the support, because the solution could be easy.

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