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Unlocking AI Efficiency: Leveraging the Dell Enterprise Hub Portal on Hugging Face

This document outlines the benefits and capabilities of using the Dell Enterprise Hub Portal on Hugging Face, and deploying optimized, self-contained containers on a validated Dell infrastructure featuring the latest models available.

Infrastructure as Code with VxRail Made Easier with Ansible Modules for Dell VxRail

Many customers are looking at Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as a better way to automate their IT environment, which is especially relevant for those adopting DevOps. However, not many customers are aware of the capability of accelerating IaC implementation with VxRail, which we have offered for some time already—Ansible Modules ...

Bright Computing Cluster-as-a-Service for VMware

Data Versioning for Reproducible and Auditable AI Datasets with Dell AI Data Platform

Introduction When your AI datasets keep changing, compliance and governance become critical challenges. Organizations are currently training, evaluating, and deploying models on live, evolving data. Compliance now requires every AI outcome to be reproducible, auditable, and explainable. But can you reproduce, audit, and govern every dataset state? The Challenge: AI ...

WASM your way to the cloud

At its core, WebAssembly (WASM) provides a lightweight, portable, and secure binary application format. WASM, which is best known for its use within browsers, runs across platforms and is an evolution in the way developers create and deploy applications. Computing has evolved from bare-metal to virtual machines and more recently ...

Failures are Rare – Operational Risk is Not

Traditional AI struggles to learn from rare but critical events. Generative digital twins bridge that gap.

Harnessing Terraform Modules with the PowerFlex Provider: A Deep Dive into SDC Host Modules

We all know Terraform is great for infrastructure provisioning and management, and Dell has six Terraform providers for the storage and server portfolio. One of its most powerful features is modules, self-contained packages of Terraform configurations that encapsulate and reuse pieces of infrastructure code. In this blog, we’ll explore what ...

NVIDIA NIM Operator 3.0: A Leap Forward in Scalable AI Inference

Overview With the release of NIM Operator 3.0 , NVIDIA continues to push the boundaries of scalable AI inference on Kubernetes. This version introduces a suite of powerful features that are designed to meet the needs of both enterprise and government-grade deployments, while also simplifying the deployment of large language ...

Introduction to Using the GenAI-Perf Tool on Dell Servers

Overview Performance analysis is a critical component that ensures the efficiency and reliability of models during the inference phase of a machine learning life cycle. For example, using a concurrency mode or request rate mode to simulate load on a server helps you understand various load conditions that are crucial ...

Terraform Import and PowerFlex SDC Volumes Mapping

Terraform execution model Terraform is a powerful infrastructure-as-code tool for provisioning and deprovisioning use cases. A single Terraform configuration can constitute multiple infrastructure components defined as resources across multiple .tf files. Terraform resources are the objects that make up the state of a particular Terraform configuration. When we run the ...

Dell at KubeCon Europe 2023

Ever wondered why KubeCon happens twice a year? I think it has to do with the pace at which things are changing in the cloud-native world. Every six months it is amazing to see the number of new CNCF projects graduating (crossing the chasm!), the number of enterprises deploying containerized ...

Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

Data centers today are facing rising energy demands, escalating operational costs, and the urgent need to align with sustainability targets. These challenges call for smarter power management solutions.

Streamlining Lab Infrastructure with Ansible Terraform and AWS

A core tenet of DevOps culture is automation. DevOps is of course not limited to automation, it’s a major organizational mindset shift that comes along with cultural, organizational and technological changes to ultimately be able to deliver software more efficiently and effectively while keeping high quality standards. Of course, this ...

Concept Astro by Dell Technologies: a vision for the future of efficient data center operations

Empowering Operators with Advanced Tools and Streamlined Reporting Executive Summary Data centers today face unprecedented challenges and opportunities driven by surging AI workloads, rising energy demands, and increasingly stringent environmental regulations. Traditional methods focused on maximizing uptime and incremental efficiency improvements are insufficient. IT decision-makers (ITDMs) now require advanced tools ...

NEW! DevOps Dispatch Podcast Series

As we head into conference season and prepare to soak up the massive doses of community, education, technology and show floors, Dell Technologies wanted to help you consume on the go and from home with our new DevOps Dispatch podcast series. DevOps Dispatch is a show that brings you the ...

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Dell RAN RU DRU79440-1

Showcases Dell's high-performance, O-RAN compliant 5G radio unit designed for the 3GPP n79 sub-band (4400–4700 MHz). With 4x40W output power and an energy-efficient design, it delivers seamless integration, scalability, and reliable 5G coverage.

Dell SRM Data Forwarder

This white paper describes the Dell SRM 1VM vApp setup with the network address translation/data forwarding function. It describes the solution architecture and provides detailed instructions for configuring it in distributed and secure SRM environments.

On-the-Fly Quantization with Dell Enterprise Hub

<span class="fr-mk" style="display: none;"> </span> The On the fly quantization blog explores how various quantization methods can be easily leveraged via Dell Enterprise Hub and Hugging Face's Text Generation Inference (TGI) framework for deploying large language models (LLMs). The analysis includes a comparison of resource utilization (GPU memory) and performance ...

Data Center Sustainability Storage Videos

Accelerate AI by Optimizing Compute Resources with the Run:ai Atlas Platform

This white paper provides insight into how Run:ai Atlas when used with GPU-enabled Dell PowerEdge server infrastructure can enable GPU sharing and optimization to accelerate AI workload scheduling and execution.

Introducing Terraform Provider for Dell PowerScale

PowerScale is industry’s leading scale-out NAS platform, so extensively deployed that very soon we’ll be talking about Zetabytes of deployment. With one of the most extensive REST API libraries including management and data services, PowerScale has the second largest number of Ansible module downloads in Dell infrastructure, second only to ...

Advanced Fine-tuning with Dell Enterprise Hub

Background The Dell Enterprise Hub (DEH) by Dell Technologies and Hugging Face enables faster time to value for on-premises AI solutions. It provides an easily accessible, cloud-hosted source for obtaining and using optimized models that run on advanced Dell hardware. For industries with strict data protection and security standards, on-premises ...

GPU Optimization with Run:ai Atlas

This technical white paper describes a solution and validated reference architecture for GPU resource allocation and scheduling using the Run:ai Atlas platform on Dell infrastructure.

Model Deployments Made Easy by Dell Enterprise Hub on PowerEdge XE9680 with AMD MI300X

Overview The Dell Enterprise Hub is a game changer for obtaining and using optimized models that run on the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with AMD MI300X. The Dell Enterprise Hub (DEH) offers a curated set of models that have been thoughtfully packaged with the right software stack in partnership with Hugging ...

Open Source RAG Made Easy by Dell Enterprise Hub

Beyond Pre-Trained LLMs: The Power of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) While pre-trained large language models (LLMs) excel at factual tasks after fine-tuning, their ability to access and update knowledge remains limited. This can hinder performance on tasks requiring deep understanding. Additionally, tracing the source of their responses is challenging. Enter Retrieval-Augmented ...

Automation and ITOps Videos

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REST API and Dell Technologies Storage - Unity

In this post, we will discuss how you can use manage Dell Unity storage using REST API. We will use the Postman tool during the entire blog series. Feel free to download and install in your system to follow along. The first post in this series provides more details about ...

How to Integrate Prometheus and Grafana in Kubernetes to Monitor Systems, GPUs, and TGI Inferences

Introduction Monitoring your Kubernetes cluster's performance, including system statistics, GPU metrics, and application-specific performance such as Hugging Face’s Text Generation Inference (TGI), is crucial for maintaining a healthy and efficient environment. Prometheus, an open-source monitoring system with a time-series database, and Grafana, a visualization platform, are popular tools for this ...

Dell PowerScale Use Cases with Terraform: Network Configuration and Cluster Management

This post is part of our series exploring practical Terraform solutions for Dell PowerScale environments. In this installment, we’ll focus on network infrastructure and cluster management automation using the PowerScale Terraform provider. Here, we’ll covers three specific use cases: Network segmentation with multi-subnet configurations Cluster monitoring setup with NTP and ...

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Q2 2023 Release for Ansible Integrations with Dell Infrastructure

Thanks to the quarterly release cadence of infrastructure as code integrations for Dell infrastructure, we have a great set of enhancements and improved functionality as part of the Q2 release. The Q2 release is all about data protection and data security. Data services that come with the ISG storage portfolio ...

Introducing Terraform Provider for Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage

We are excited to announce the beta-availability of the new Terraform provider for Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage. APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage drastically simplifies multicloud storage deployment and data management. With the new Terraform provider, we are bringing the power of Terraform cloud deployments to APEX Navigator workflows. ...

APEX Job Management APIs – Pause and Resume Operations

Welcome back to our APEX Job Management blog series! In our previous post, we explored the query APIs for the job - “ APEX Job Management APIs – Get Job Instances ”. Today, we will delve into two crucial operations “Pause” and “Resume ” . Let’s get started . Prerequisites ...

Automation and ITOps Videos

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Engineering High Performance: A Platform-Centric Operating Model with Dell Automation Platform

Executive summary High-performing enterprises have moved beyond the speed trap. Delivery performance is no longer constrained by deployment velocity, but by the cognitive load created by unmanaged variance. At scale, variance – not speed – is the primary source of delivery friction . As workloads expand across private cloud, edge ...

Managing your on-premises infrastructure with HashiCorp - Part 3

This is the third blog post in a series in which we are introducing Terraform to infrastructure admins and engineers. We go into depth to explain how to use Terraform to manage on-prem physical infrastructure in a datacenter. It is highly recommended that you quickly review the previous posts before ...

Dell SRM: Disaster Recovery and Federated Architecture

This white paper describes the Dell SRM disaster recovery and federated architecture for time-series, event, and topology data.

Model Merging Made Easy by Dell Enterprise Hub

Beyond Open-Source LLMs: Tailoring Models for Your Needs The open-source LLM landscape is booming! But with so many options, choosing the right model can be overwhelming . What if you need a model with both domain-specific knowledge and diverse generation capabilities? Enter model merging, a powerful technique to unlock the ...

Getting Started with REST API

What is REST API? REST stands for Representational State Transfer, and it is an architectural style for building APIs, or application programming interfaces. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, a lightweight format for storing and transmitting data between a server and a client application. REST and JSON are popular technologies ...

Solution Guide—ClearML on Dell AI Factory

This solution guide describes ClearML deployed on Dell AI Factory, a structured approach for enterprises AI workloads at scale that unifies experiment tracking, pipeline orchestration, LLM workflows, and GPU resource management on‑premises AI infrastructure.

Solution Brief—Run VMs and containers alongside bare-metal servers

How to build and deploy clusters as a service with VMware vSphere and Bright Cluster Manager

Managing your on-premises infrastructure with HashiCorp Terraform – Part 9

This is the ninth blog post in a series to introduce infrastructure admins and engineers to Terraform. Before we learn about how enterprise DevOps for on-premises infrastructure, you can review the previous blog posts to make sure you are up to speed: Terraform on-premises infrastructure Terraform Dell PowerStore Terraform resource ...

REST API and Dell Technologies Storage - Introduction

REST API with Dell Technologies What is REST? REST stands for Representational State Transfer. REST provides access to resources on a tree-like structure. In order to reference a resource (like a volume, an initiator group, etc ) we use a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), which essentially looks like a path ...

Automation and ITOps Videos

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The New Data Era Demands Solutions for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

Automated Update and Translation of Prompts (AUTOP): Strategy for LLM Prompt Migration

This paper describes the automated update and translation of prompts (AUTOP) framework, its architecture, and recommended integration patterns and operational practices for enterprise adoption.

More Compute, Fewer Watts: The PowerEdge R770 vs. the R760

An analysis of the energy efficiency improvements of the 17th generation PowerEdge R770 compared to the 16th generation PowerEdge R760. Why Power Efficiency Matters AI workloads are pushing data center electricity demand into uncharted territory. The International Energy Agency now projects that global data center consumption will more than double ...

Generative AI Tools for Infrastructure As Code Practitioners

Today, Infrastructure as code is a mainstream technology used extensively by DevOps and ITOps engineers to manage dynamic IT environments consisting of data, applications, and infrastructure with increasing scale, complexity, and diversity. With a GitOps driven workflow , engineers can bring much needed standardization, security, and operational consistency across diverse ...

Accelerating and Optimizing AI Operations with Infrastructure as Code

Accelerating and Optimizing AI Operations with Infrastructure as Code Achieving maturity in a DevOps organization requires overcoming various barriers and following specific steps. The level of maturity attained depends on the short-term and long-term goals set for the infrastructure. In the short term, IT teams must focus on upskilling their ...

Automate high-touch server lifecycle management tasks

In our hands-on evaluation, we found OME systems management automations shaved valuable time and effort off our manual server discovery and firmware update workflows.

Dell Future-Proof—Reducing the Risk of IT

Abstract: Given the importance of digital services to business success, today’s IT leaders must do everything possible to accelerate operations and simplify operational burdens on high-value personnel. To this end, the Dell Technologies Future-Proof Program provides a collection of offers, assurances, and guarantees designed to help companies simplify their IT ...

An Edge Field Guide: Five Practical Principles for Successful Edge Deployment - White Paper

Success with edge technologies requires strategic planning, technical innovation, and educated risk-taking. This paper describes five key principles for successful edge technology deployments.

Reduce IT energy consumption with Dell PowerEdge servers

Power the future sustainably with Dell PowerEdge servers and 4th and 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

Taming the Accelerator Cambrian Explosion with Omnia

We are in the midst of a compute accelerator renaissance. Myriad new hardware accelerator companies are springing up with novel architectures and execution models for accelerating simulation and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, each with a purported advantage over the others. Many are still in stealth, some have become public knowledge, ...

Integrating Avesha's KubeSlice with Dell PowerFlex for Multi-Cluster Connectivity

This blog is written as a joint effort between Ryan Wallner from Dell Technologies and Rob Croteau of Avesha. In today's rapidly evolving tech landscape, the ability to seamlessly connect and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters is paramount. This is whereAvesha's KubeSlicecomes into play, offering a robust solution for multi-cluster connectivity. ...

Give administrators time back with Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise integrations

Reduce time and effort to track service tickets with OMISNOW and simplify deployment tasks with OpenManage Ansible modules

Q2 2024 Update for Ansible Integrations with Dell Infrastructure

Here is a summary of what’s new in the Ansible collections for the Dell ISG portfolio: Ansible collection for PowerFlex: v2.4 and 2.5 Ansible collection for PowerStore: v3.3 and 3.4 Ansible collection for PowerScale: v2.4 and 2.5 Ansible collection for PowerFlex Following are the enhancements that are part of Ansible ...

Multicloud Acceleration: Why Dell Now?

It seems like we have a nice taste of Dell APEX sprinkled on everything these days. We are continuing to unpack all that Dell APEX can provide solutions for. Dell is right at the front, helping the multicloud acceleration adoption initiatives and efficiencies our clients are driving towards. I am ...

KubeCon Musings: Dell @ KubeCon EU Amsterdam

Dell recently attended KubeCon EU in Amsterdam I have the pleasure of joining the Dell team at the booth to talk about everything from Dell’s Container Storage Modules for Kubernetes to our validated stacks and future cloud offerings. We even had Alienware gaming computers and a full-blown podcast booth where ...

So You'd Like an Easy Button for ML/DL...Look No Further Than Cnvrg.io on Dell

I consult with various customers on their AI/ML/DL needs while coming up with architectures, designs and solutions that are durable, scalable, flexible, efficient, performant, sensible and cost effective. After having seen perhaps 100 different opportunities I have some observations and yes suggestions on how to do things better. Firstly, there’s ...

Power Demand Explosion: Why Data Centers Are Reshaping Energy Markets

AI is driving a power surge—data centers could use 10% of U.S. electricity by 2028. The digital transformation sweeping across industries is driving an unprecedented surge in energy demand. With artificial intelligence, cloud computing and edge compute expanding rapidly, data centers are projected to consume up to 12% of the ...

Deploying the Llama 3.1 405b Model Using Dell Enterprise Hub

This blog is one in a series of three that shows how Dell Technologies and our partner AI ecosystem can help you to provision the most powerful open-source model available easily. In this series of blogs , we share information about the ease of deploying the Llama 3.1 405b model ...

SUSE Rancher, SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, and K3s for Edge Computing

This guide describes a SUSE Rancher 2.6.5, K3s 1.23.6, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 solution on Dell infrastructure for edge computing applications.

An Introduction to KubeVirt, Virtual Machines on Kubernetes – DevOps Dialogs Lightboard Series

>>>Embedded content: https://www.youtube.com/embed/JniNepFJHLs Kubernetes is the DeFacto standard when it comes to running cloud native applications for the enterprise. Many organizations are modernizing their development and build processes to run their applications in containers, but what does this mean for existing applications that are already running in virtual machines? Virtual ...

Journey to Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as code (IaC) has become a key enabler of today’s highly automated software deployment processes. In this blog, let’s see how today’s fast growing IaC paradigms evolved from traditional programming. On the surface IaC might just imply using coding languages to provision, configure, and manage infrastructure components. While the ...

Thunderbolt Quality Center (TQC): Intel and Dell Case Study

This white paper describes advanced validation and testing strategies developed in close partnership between Intel’s Thunderbolt Engineering and the Dell platform validation team.

Q3 2024 Update for Ansible Integrations with Dell Infrastructure

In this post I will cover what’s new in the Ansible collections for the Dell ISG portfolio that have become available in Q3 2024. The following are new releases: Ansible collection for PowerScale : v3.2 and v3.3 Ansible collection for PowerMax : v3.1 What’s new in PowerScale Ansible collection v3.2 ...

SRM: Introduction to the PowerStore SolutionPack

This white paper provides an overview of the PowerStore SolutionPack in Dell EMC Storage Resource Manager (SRM) 4.4.3.

Federal Private Wireless 5G Communications Video

Provides a overview of the Dell Federal 5G solution including Dell's 5G radio and Private Wireless Orchestrator software.

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Dell Federal 5G Solution Brochure

Outlines a secure, Open RAN-compliant 5G network tailored for U.S. federal and DoD needs. It highlights private 5G benefits, hardware/software components, federal compliance, and use cases like military bases, autonomous systems, and battlefield operations.

Automation and ITOps Videos

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Edge Simulation for Advanced Development Systems

This whitepaper describes how Dell Technologies is working with monoDrive to produce high-fidelity simulations using the industry-leading PowerEdge and PowerStore systems.

Dell RAN Software

Details Dell's fully O-RAN compliant software for 5G networks. It highlights features like open interfaces, modular architecture, and advanced capabilities such as CU/DU separation, 256 QAM modulation, and support for up to 64 radio units.

Dell Enterprise Hub just got even faster

The Dell Enterprise Hub (DEH) has a curated software stack and models that have been optimized and validated on Dell PowerEdge platforms. Over the past few months the Dell and Hugging Face teams have worked together to make the DEH optimized containers even faster. This blog shows what you can ...

Simplifying AI at Scale: NIM Operator 2.0 on Dell AI Factory

The NIM Operator, developed by NVIDIA, is a powerful Kubernetes Operator designed to streamline the deployment, management, and scaling of NVIDIA NIM microservices on Kubernetes clusters. This tool makes it easier to handle AI inference pipelines, ensuring faster and more flexible generative AI development across various environments, from data centers ...

Reflections on Monktoberfest 2022

Monktoberfest is a perfect blend of season, community, food, and beer. For those wondering, Monktoberfest is a day and half of talks in the northeast city of Portland, Maine. Monktoberfest takes place during the fall season and blends unique talks, craft food and beer. The talks center around the crossroads ...

Multicloud Kubernetes as a Service

Digital Transformation is still on everyone's mind. Not surprisingly, organizations seek to improve developer agility in the hope that they can react faster to market changes. This is especially important in the current geopolitical and economic environment. Kubernetes is gaining more popularity as it helps shorten software’s time-to-market. Organizations that ...

Model Selection Made Easy by Dell Enterprise Hub

With so many models available in Dell Enterprise Hub, which one should you use? Figure 1. Dell Enterprise Hub https://dell.huggingface.co In reality, there is no one model to rule them all. Even if there was one, it would be inefficient and ineffective to use the same model for all your ...

AI Agents Made Easy by Dell Enterprise Hub

From Models to AI Agents: The Future of Intelligent Applications Our previous blogs explored model selection criteria and model merging for complex applications . Now, let's delve into the next level: AI Agents. AI Agents: Intelligent Collaboration AI agents are software programs that learn and act autonomously. They can work ...

Dell Federal 5G Infographic

Showcases a secure, North American-built 5G solution for critical missions. It highlights intuitive orchestration, modular servers with L1 acceleration, n79 ORAN-compliant radios, and end-to-end ancillaries, ensuring seamless deployment and mission success.

Design Guide—Optimize Machine Learning Through MLOps with Dell Technologies cnvrg.io

This guide describes the Dell Validated Design for Machine Learning through MLOps with Dell Technologies and cnvrg.io. This validated design was developed in collaboration with cnvrg.io.

Ansible playbooks for snapshot management on Dell PowerStore

Data protection, operational recovery, compliance, and backup management are critical aspects of managing your PowerStore infrastructure. But let's face it, manually handling these tasks can be tedious, error-prone, and time-consuming. What if you could automate these essential operations, ensuring consistency, reducing risk, and freeing up your team to focus on ...

Omnia: Open-source deployment of high-performance clusters to run simulation, AI, and data analytics workloads

High Performance Computing (HPC), in which clusters of machines work together as one supercomputer, is changing the way we live and how we work. These clusters of CPU, memory, accelerators, and other resources help us forecast the weather and understand climate change, understand diseases, design new drugs and therapies, develop ...

Q3 2023: New and Updated Terraform Providers for Dell Infrastructure

We just concluded three quarters of Terraform provider development for Dell infrastructure, and we have some exciting updates to existing providers as well as two brand new providers for PowerScale and PowerEdge node (Redfish-interface) workflows! You can check out the first two releases of Terraform providers here: Q1-2023 and Q2-2023 ...

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AI, Energy and the Future of Efficient Data Center Operations

Could AI help improve power use, enhance grid flexibility and streamline industrial processes? Rising AI workloads are expected to drive higher data center energy use, costs and emissions. Some experts even predict data center energy consumption could double by 2030 , placing added strain on already burdened power grids. As ...

LLM-Serving Observability Framework

This technical white paper provides an exploration of the real-time monitoring, service availability, and performance metrics that drive enterprise AI.

MAPLE: Masking PII in LLM Enterprise

MAPLE (MAsking PII in LLM Enterprise) is a vendor-neutral framework for measuring how effectively a personally identifiable information (PII) masking solution protects sensitive data as it flows through enterprise large language model (LLM) pipelines.

Installing ESXi7.0 with Small Storage Footprint

This blog provides instructions for installing ESXi7.0 on Dell VEP4600/1405 platforms with small hard disk space consumption. In ESXi7.0 release, the default storage used by ESXi is about 138GB, see the following link for more information: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/81166 This release offers the option to reduce the storage consumption. This blog provides ...

Blockify for Data Orchestration Engine: Dramatically Improve DOE RAG Pipelines with Blockify

This document describes how Blockify integrated with Dell Data Orchestration Engine (DOE) and Data Search Engine (DSE) can dramatically improve RAG pipelines.

Cloud native app development using Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition and MicroK8s

The Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer laptop is an ideal machine to use for local cloud-native app development with Kubernetes and I’m going to show you how to get started. Using MicroK8s is ideal for this use case, it’s a project from Canonical to enable lightweight single or multi-node Kubernetes ...

Dell PowerMax: Ansible Modules Best Practices

This document provides guidelines and tips for making use of the Ansible Modules for Dell PowerMax. Techniques and practices discussed in this paper are applicable to other Dell modules and Ansible in general.

EKS Anywhere, Kubernetes protection at scale with Dell's PowerProtect Data Manager

This article is part of the EKS Anywhere series EKS Anywhere., extending the Hybrid cloud momentum This is one article that I cherished the most as the outcomes really inspire the highest degree of confidence for Kubernetes Day-2 operations. Also, a big shout-out to my colleague Raghava Jainoje from Dell’s ...

Dell PowerScale Use Cases with Terraform: File System Operations with Multiple Protocols

This blog post is part of our series exploring practical Terraform solutions for managing Dell PowerScale environments. Today, we'll dive into managing multi-protocol file access, focusing on automating the configuration and maintenance of mixed SMB/NFS environments using the PowerScale Terraform provider. We'll explore three scenarios: Setting up multi-protocol file shares ...

APEX Job Management APIs – Get Job Instances

In this blog we will cover two REST APIs from APEX Job Management System for querying jobs. Before you begin : 1. APEX API access key and secret has been generated and is available. You can check “Creating & Managing Dell APEX API access key Id and secret” blog addressing ...

Future-Proof Program

Engineered to optimize your investments in Dell Technologies’ storage, data protection, HCI, networking, and server solutions, the Future-Proof Program delivers guaranteed outcomes, minimizing risk as you shape the future of your IT strategy.

What is Container Storage Interface (CSI) and how does Dell use it?

The container storage interface (CSI) is a specification aimed at providing an industry standard for how storage providers can interoperate with container orchestration (CO) systems. So, what does this mean? Before we dive in, a very brief bit of history will help paint the whole picture. We are going to ...

Dell Technologies VEP1405 system BIOS/Firmware Upgrade

This document provides steps to perform a Dell Unified Firmware upgrade (UFW) utility to upgrade VEP1405 BIOS and other firmware. Download UFW (Unified Firmware Upgrader) from Dell support portal. Type VEP14 in the search bar, as shown in the following screenshot. Select Dell Networking VEP1425/VEP1445/VEP1485 from the dropdown list. Select ...

Optimizing AI Workloads on Dell AI Platform with NVIDIA: A Case Study on Run:AI-enabled GenAI

This paper evaluates the performance and efficiency of the Dell AI Platform with NVIDIA GPUs and NVIDIA Run:ai software. February, 2025

Another reason to adopt Visual Studio Code for Infrastructure as Code

New extension on Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a widely popular, lightweight source code editor developed by Microsoft, used by over 24 million developers worldwide. With its flexibility, extensive language support, and powerful extension ecosystem, VS Code has become the preferred choice for developers across many ...

OpenNebula

OpenNebula is a hybrid cloud platform enabling enterprise-grade AI workloads with multi-tenancy, NVIDIA integrations, LLM support, and 5G edge AI processing. OpenNebula is a cloud management and orchestration platform designed with advanced features and integrations to build and operate enterprise-grade hybrid clouds that support multi-tenant AI Factories. It enables the ...

Ansible playbooks for NAS file system management on Dell PowerStore

Scaling file services on your Dell PowerStore requires sharpening your automation skills for tasks like initial network attached server (NAS) setup, quota management, disaster recovery, and access control. This post explores how the Ansible collection for Dell PowerStore can streamline your PowerStore file services operations. We'll dive into practical use ...

What is Persistent Storage in Kubernetes? – DevOps Dialogs Lightboard Series

Persistent Storage in Kubernetes is provided by both the Persistent Volume and Persistent Volume Claim objects in the Kubernetes API (Application Program Interface) resources . Persistent volumes give applications a place to store data where the data remains protected beyond the lifecycles (failure, restart, reschedule...) of an individual container, pod, ...

Dell Private Cloud: Tech Book

This document provides a comprehensive technical review of Dell Private Cloud and its supported hypervisor ecosystems.

We Automate – So You Can Innovate: Unlocking Innovation with the Dell Automation Platform

At Dell Technologies World 2025, we didn’t just talk about the future of enterprise IT—we showed it in action. For those of us deep in the trenches of building labs, scaling real-world workloads, and integrating automation at every layer, this year’s announcements were more than marketing—they were a blueprint for ...

Dell PowerScale Snapshot Use Cases with Terraform

In version 1.6 of the Terraform provider for PowerScale, new resources (writable_snapshot, snapshot_restore) and datasources (writable_snapshot) have been introduced to support workflows with PowerScale snapshots. This blog post presents day-2 use cases for snapshot management that can be automated with Terraform configurations. Dell PowerScale provides a highly flexible and scalable ...

Dell AIOps: Assure infrastructure integrity with ease

Use the power of AI to simplify IT & optimize infrastructure health, cybersecurity & sustainability. Dell AIOps is Dell’s cloud-based AI driven application for observing, and predictively analyzing Dell storage, server, cyber resilience, networking and hyperconverged infrastructure along with Dell multicloud services in a single user interface. Customer surveys validate ...

Dell Enterprise Hub Inference Performance Optimizations Explained

Introduction The Dell Enterprise Hub is a rapidly evolving ecosystem allowing Dell Customers to easily deploy models on-premises, optimized for Dell Hardware. But how do we optimize for Dell Servers? What are our optimization targets? And what is our approach to inference performance? Overview The AI industry is advancing rapidly, ...

Improving Power Efficiency on Dell PowerEdge Servers using BIOS and iDRAC profiles

This paper shows how power‑efficient BIOS and iDRAC profiles help lower energy consumption on 17th generation PowerEdge servers and highlights power efficiency gains versus the previous 16th generation.

For the Year 2022: Ansible Integration Enhancements for the Dell Infrastructure Solutions Portfolio

The Dell infrastructure portfolio spans the entire hybrid cloud, from storage to compute to networking, and all the software functionality to deploy, manage, and monitor different application stacks from traditional databases to containerized applications deployed on Kubernetes. When it comes to integrating the infrastructure portfolio with 3 rd party IT ...

Product Carbon Footprints: Measuring the impact of products on the environment

Dell Technologies creates technology to help customers and partners achieve their business and societal goals and provides environmental impact measurements. Here’s how we measure each product’s carbon footprint (PCF) and pursue opportunities for improvement.

Dell OpenManage Enterprise Operations with Ansible Part 3: Compliance, Reporting, and Remediation

In case you missed it, check out the first post of this series for some background information on the openmanage Ansible collection by Dell and inventory management, as well as the second post to learn more about template-based deployment. In this blog, we’ll take a look at automating compliance and ...

Dell RAN RU DRU77440-1

Highlights a high-performance, O-RAN compliant 5G radio unit for the 3.5 GHz spectrum. It features 4T4R MIMO, 40W per antenna, Split 7.2a fronthaul, and energy-efficient design, ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and robust 5G coverage.

Unlocking Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered coding assistant, has been making waves in the developer community for its ability to enhance productivity. A study published on the GitHub Blog revealed that developers using GitHub Copilot could complete tasks up to 55% faster. This impressive statistic is not just a number; it reflects ...

A DevOps Docuseries: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future

Announcing Ansible modules for Q1 2023 release

At the beginning of the year, I blogged about all the new Ansible integration features that were released in 2022 across the Dell infrastructure portfolio. As we add new functionality and make REST API enhancements to the different storage and server products of the portfolio, we add support for select ...

Managing your on-premises infrastructure with HashiCorp Terraform - Part 7

This is the seventh blog post in a series to introduce infrastructure admins and engineers to Terraform, and explain how its used to manage on-premises physical infrastructure in a data center. Before we learn about automating the deployment and configuration of virtual machines (VMs), quickly review the previous blog posts ...

Virtual Edge Platform (VEP) 1405 Series DIAG OS and Tools Release Notes

This document provides detailed information about the software requirements, BIOS installation and configuration, BIOS, CPLD, and PIC update information for the VEP1405 series of systems.

uCPE Hypervisor Network Functions Virtualization Sizing Guideline

This document describes how to make proper NFV sizing estimate and choose a right VEP model. VEP4600 powered by Intel Xeon D CPU, hyperthreading function can be enabled or disabled in BIOS settings. The following screenshot shows the BIOS hyperthreading enable configuration. If hyperthreading is enabled in VEP4600 BIOS settings, ...

LLM Local Container Repository Management with Dell Enterprise Hub

The LLM Local Container Repository Management with Dell Enterprise Hub blog ( Optimizing Local Management of Dell Enterprise Hub Model Containers | Dell Technologies Info Hub ) highlights the challenges of managing and deploying increasingly large LLM container images within Kubernetes clusters. It proposes utilizing Open Container Initiative (OCI) compliant ...

Dell RAN Accelerator Card

Details a high-performance Layer 1 accelerator card, developed with Marvell, for Open RAN networks. It enhances 5G efficiency with in-line Layer 1 processing, reducing CPU usage and power costs, featuring PCIe Gen5, 25GbE fronthaul, & advanced timing protocols

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Managing your on-premises infrastructure with HashiCorp Terraform - Part 2

Most of the Terraform content out there targets developers and public cloud. In contrast, this blog focuses on Terraform as an automation tool for system and storage admins and infrastructure engineers operating physical hardware. Terraform on-premises infrastructure Terraform Dell PowerStore Terraform resource dependencies Terraform variables Terraform Dell PowerMax This post ...

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Computing on the Edge

A blog series focused on Telecommunications and edge technologies.

Securing Federal Networks: The Role of Private 5G and Wi-Fi

Explores how Private 5G and Wi-Fi complement each other in federal and defense networks. It highlights their strengths, limitations, and use cases, emphasizing secure, scalable, and reliable connectivity for mission-critical operations, enhancing efficiency.

Dell PowerMax: Ansible Modules Best Practices

This document provides guidelines and tips for making use of the Ansible modules for Dell PowerMax. Techniques and practices discussed in this paper are applicable to other Dell modules and Ansible in general.

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Bringing Efficiency to Dell Business with RabbitMQ Messaging Self-Service

RabbitMQ messaging platform is widely used in Dell Digital to connect various distributed heterogeneous applications at scale. It provides a common platform to exchange messages between producing applications and consuming applications. Providing a ready-to-use, production-grade RabbitMQ messaging platform to application developers requires wiring up various services from multiple departments across ...

Scaling AI: How Dell Technologies is Building a More Energy Efficient AI Ecosystem

This paper outlines Dell Technologies’ commitments to embedding efficiency into our products and operations, how our AI-ready solutions support efficiency efforts across industries, and our vision for a more sustainable digital future.

Dell OpenManage Enterprise Operations with Ansible Part 2: Templates and Deployment

In case you missed it, check out the first part of this blog series for some background on the openmanage Ansible collection by Dell. In this post, we’ll take a look at template based deployment in OME driving from Ansible. Template based deployment Templates in OME are a great way ...

The Dell PowerEdge R7725 Delivers 3x the Performance per Watt of its Predecessor

An analysis of the energy efficiency improvements of the 17th generation PowerEdge R7725 compared to the 14th generation PowerEdge R7425 Introduction In the data center, raw performance only tells half the story. The other half is how much power it takes to deliver that performance. As energy costs rise and ...

Managing your on-premises infrastructure with HashiCorp Terraform - Part 1

As I search the internet for “Terraform” I see plenty of examples for AWS, Azure, GCP and other public clouds. Developers use it a lot to provision virtual infrastructure and applications in public cloud, but what does it mean to you and me? What does it mean to system admins, ...

Hugging Face Model Deployments Made Easy by Dell Enterprise Hub

Overview The Dell Enterprise Hub ( https://dell.huggingface.co/ ) is a game changer for obtaining and using optimized models that run on some of the latest and greatest Dell hardware. The Dell Enterprise Hub has a curated set of models that have been containerized with all the software dependencies optimized to ...

Boost Energy Efficiency and Sustainability with Dell PowerEdge Solutions

Dell Technologies aims to create more sustainable products and services while also lowering operating costs.

Follow the Dell PowerEdge sustainability journey — from production to reutilization

Using Synthetic Data Generation to Fine Tune a model from the Dell Enterprise Hub

Background The Dell Enterprise Hub offered by Dell Technologies and Hugging Face enables faster time to value for on-premises AI solutions. It provides an easily accessible cloud-hosted source for obtaining and using optimized models that run on some of the latest and greatest Dell hardware. For industries that must comply ...

Dell RAN Software brochure

Highlights a fully O-RAN compliant solution for scalable 5G networks. It details features like CU/DU separation, open interfaces, and advanced Layer 1 processing, ensuring interoperability, flexibility, and robust performance for federal 5G deployments.

Announcing Terraform Providers for Dell Infrastructure

HashiCorp’s Terraform enables DevOps organizations to provision, configure and modify infrastructure using human-readable configuration files or plans written in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). Information required to configure various infrastructure components are provided within pre-built Terraform providers so that the end user can easily discover the infrastructure properties that can be ...

Dell SRM: Automating Incident Management in ServiceNow

This white paper describes the Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) integration with the ServiceNow IT Service Management application.

Managing your on-premises infrastructure with HashiCorp Terraform – Part 8

This is the eighth blog post in a series to introduce infrastructure admins and engineers to Terraform, and explain how it's used to manage on-premises physical infrastructure in a data center. Before we learn about automating mounting of the volume of Dell PowerScale, quickly review the previous blog posts to ...

Federal Compliance - Dell Federal 5G Solution

Outlines Dell's secure, mission-ready 5G solutions for U.S. federal agencies. It highlights compliance with DISA STIGs/SRGs, FIPS 140-2/3, Common Criteria, USGv6, and VPAT, ensuring robust cybersecurity and operational resilience.

On the Fly Quantization with Dell Enterprise Hub

Introduction As the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) increases, so does the trend for larger model sizes. Figure one shows the acceleration in model development of popular open-source generative AI LLMs since 2017: Figure 1: Open-source LLM development acceleration ( infohub.delltechnologies.com ) This increase in model size results in ...

FPGA-Powered 5G: Securing Mission-Critical Connectivity

This white paper explores how Dell Technologies' FPGA-based Open RAN Radio Units (O-RUs) deliver unmatched agility, security, and energy efficiency for Federal Private 5G networks.

Q1 2024 Update for Ansible Integrations with Dell Infrastructure

In this blog post, I am going to cover the new Ansible functionality for the Dell infrastructure portfolio that we released over the past two quarters. Ansible collections are now on a monthly release cadence, and you can bookmark the changelog pages from their respective GitHub pages to get updates ...

From Lab to Production: Running Gemma 3 using Dell Enterprise Hub on OpenShift

Executive summary As enterprises increasingly navigate complex regulatory landscapes and prioritize data sovereignty, the demand for powerful, secure, and scalable on-premises artificial intelligence (AI) solutions has become paramount. Google’s Gemma 3, the latest family of open-weight models, paired with Dell’s high-density PowerEdge XE9680 server, presents a compelling, enterprise-grade solution to ...

Dell Technologies VEP4600 BIOS/Firmware Upgrade

This document discusses how to use Dell Unified Firmware upgrade (UFW) utility to upgrade VEP4600 BIOS and other firmware. 1. Download UFW (Unified Firmware Upgrader) from Dell support portal and search VEP4600 , as shown in the following image: 2. Select Dell Networking VEP4600 16-Core or any other VEP4600 models ...

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What is GitOps? – DevOps Dialogs Lightboard Series

GitOps sounds and resembles terms like “DevOps,” so what is the difference and how are they related? GitOps is a form of DevOps and arguably a subset of DevOps. GitOps is focused on the tools and workflows that involve Git. Git is a version control utility widely used across the ...

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Dell Private Wireless Orchestrator

Highlights a cloud-native GUI for managing Dell Federal 5G networks. Hosted on Azure Government Cloud, it offers centralized orchestration, zero-touch provisioning, robust security, and real-time monitoring for mission-critical operations.

Secure Federal Communications: The Need for Dedicated Private 5G Networks

Discusses the need for dedicated private 5G networks for U.S. federal agencies and the DoD. It highlights deployment options, federal mandates, security, and cost considerations, emphasizing private 5G's role in secure, mission-critical communications.

Introducing Dell Federal 5G: Secure Wireless for Critical Missions

For the United States government and the Department of Defense, secure and reliable communications are the backbone of mission success. From coordinating logistics on a naval base to enabling search and rescue operations, the ability to transmit sensitive information quickly and securely is paramount. Modern missions require a new level ...

Managing Your On-Premises Infrastructure with HashiCorp Terraform – Part 10

This is the final blog post in this series to introduce infrastructure admins and engineers to Terraform. Before we learn about modernizing on-premises infrastructure with terraform import, you can review the previous blog posts to make sure you are up to speed: Terraform on-premises infrastructure Terraform Dell PowerStore Terraform resource ...

Scaling Edge Telemetric Near-Time Data Processing with Dell Streaming Solution

Introduction In today’s fast-paced digital world, enterprise storage, servers, networks, and other IT infrastructure devices of Dell Technologies play a crucial role in maintaining smooth operations. These devices are configured to send telemetry and alert files, generating billions of messages daily from millions of edge-connected devices. This telemetric data is ...

Dell Validated Design Security Configurations for Edge Solutions using VMware vSphere 8.0

This configuration guide provides a baseline for hardening and auditing guidance for vSphere version 8.0.

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Dell SRM: Automating Incident Management in ServiceNow

This white paper describes the Dell Storage Resource Manager (SRM) integration with the ServiceNow IT service management application, ITSM.

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iDRAC10 Real-Time Telemetry in Action: Streaming Server, GPU, and OS Metrics to External Tools

This technical paper outlines Dell iDRAC’s support for Redfish Telemetry, including deployment examples for streaming server telemetry, operating system statistics, and GPU data. It demonstrates how to use Dell’s free iDRAC-Telemetry-Reference-Framework with InfluxDB and Grafana integration. Readers will learn how to enable iDRAC telemetry and build a real-time graphical dashboard to visualize server metrics.

Multicloud—All the things!

It has been a few months now since I moved over from pre-sales to a Dell Technical Staff role, supporting all our multicloud storage software offerings here at Dell Technologies. Once again, just like my previous role, this role is very broad and also very deep. Dell APEX has many ...

Dell Enterprise Hub Command Line Interface and Developer SDK Explained

Introduction As Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities grow more complex, evaluating and deploying optimized AI solutions is becoming increasingly challenging, posing questions such as: Will your existing infrastructure be able to run the latest Large Language Models? How quickly can you evaluate the latest open-source models? Dell Enterprise Hub Over the ...

Simplifying Machine Learning with Omnia and Polyaxon

Managing data science projects can be a nightmare Tracking data science projects can be a nightmare. Making sense of a sea of experiments, models that are all scattered across multiple workstations with no sense of order, different software environments, and other complexities create ever more hurdles to making sense of ...

Dell Technologies VEP4600 BMC/IPMI Feature Introduction

VEP4600 system includes a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) controller to provide out of band (OOB) hardware management. This controller has the following features: BMC RJ-45 serial console IPMI standard API library support through BMC network BMC web-based UI The following screenshot provides a sample of the Putty BMC serial console ...

CloudIQ - Carbon Footprint Analysis

In this blog post, we’ll cover a topic that is top of mind for all organizations, small and large-- Energy Efficiency . I’ll also highlight how Dell Technologies helps customers increase energy efficiency using our vast portfolio. First, let’s define what Energy Efficiency is. “Simply put, energy efficiency means using ...

Solution Guide—JFrog for Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA

This solution guide presents the JFrog Platform on Dell AI Factory as a validated design for the Dell Automation Platform, helping organizations securely deploy, scale, and govern enterprise AI with automated software supply chain and AI security tools.

A DevOps Docuseries: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future

Q3 2023: Updated Ansible Collections for Dell Portfolio

The Ansible collection release schedule for the storage platforms is now monthly--just like the openmanage collection--so starting this quarter, I will roll up the features we released for storage modules for the past three months of the quarter. Over the past quarter, we made major enhancements to Ansible collections for ...

Enabling your Data Scientist with NVIDIA AI Workbench and NIMs

Introduction Data scientists are key enablers in any modern organization. They use powerful tools to maximize the value of your data, including machine learning algorithms and working with generative artificial intelligence. However, a staggering 87% of AI projects do not make it to production. This is often due to the ...

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PowerStore REST API: Using Filtering to Fine Tune Your Queries

The PowerStore REST API provides a powerful way to manage a PowerStore cluster, mainly when using one’s own scripts [3] or automation tools. In some areas of PowerStore, almost all of its functionality is available when using the REST API – and sometimes even more when the required attributes are ...

Terraform configurations for managing Dell PowerScale SyncIQ replication

In versions 1.5 and 1.6 of the Terraform provider for PowerScale, new resources and data sources have been introduced to support workflows with PowerScale SyncIQ replication. This blog post presents day-2 use cases where SyncIQ must be setup for data replication between PowerScale clusters. These use cases address specific operational, ...

Q2 2024 Update on Terraform Providers for Dell Infrastructure

This post covers all the new Terraform resources and data sources that have been released in the last two quarters: Q4’23 and Q1 ‘24. You can check out previous releases of Terraform providers here: Q1-2023 , Q2-2023 and Q3-2023 . I also covered the first release of PowerScale provider here ...

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Monitoring Dell Enterprise Hub Model Training with TensorFlow TensorBoard

Overview This blog explores how to deploy and configure TensorFlow TensorBoard to monitor and visualize model evaluation metrics in conjunction with Dell Enterprise Hub. Example TensorBoard visualizations of training evaluations with Dell Enterprise Hub. TensorBoard is a powerful visualization tool designed for machine learning workflows. Developed as part of the ...

Model Plug and Play Made Easy by Dell Enterprise Hub

Seamless Model Deployment and A/B Testing with Dell Enterprise Hub Dell Enterprise Hub simplifies model deployment—as detailed in our blog, Model Deployments Made Easy by Dell Enterprise Hub —and choosing the right model requires careful consideration—as discussed in our blog, Model Selection Made Easy by Dell Enterprise Hub . In ...

An introduction to the 4 Cs of Cloud Native Security

There is no shortage of complexity when it comes to building a platform based on Kubernetes. There are countless examples of DevOps and platform engineering teams who fall prey to easily misconfigured Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native technologies. Not to mention the challenge around security posture given the pace at which ...

Dell’s Developer line turns 10! -- A decade of Project Sputnik & the lessons learned

10 years ago, Dell’s first developer system, the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 developer edition became available in the US and Canada. What made this product unique was not only that it had been developed out-of-process and by a team largely made up of volunteers, but it targeted a customer segment completely ...

Managing your on-premises infrastructure with HashiCorp - Part 4

This is the fourth blog post in a series with the goal to introduce infrastructure admins and engineers to Terraform. In the series, we are explaining how to use it to manage on-prem physical infrastructure in a data center. It is highly recommended that you quickly review the previous post ...

eBooks

eBooks provide a short overview of a solution or topic for a quick and informative read.

Dell Federal 5G Solution, Solution Brief

Highlights a secure, O-RAN compliant 5G network for U.S. government and DoD. It features private wireless orchestration, rugged servers, RAN software, and device interoperability, ensuring mission-critical connectivity and federal compliance.

Creating & Managing Dell APEX API access key Id and secret

Create API access key The following steps will help you to create an API access key: 1. Log in to the Dell Premier Portal. 2. Navigate to Administration à Access Keys . 3. Click on “Create Access Key.” 4. Provide the description (optional) and select the roles to be assigned. ...

What’s the best cooling strategy for your AI deployment?

The Dell PowerCool eRDHx redefines data center efficiency. Discover how the Dell PowerCool Enclosed Rear Door Heat Exchanger (eRDHx) has defined a new category of cooling, delivering efficiency gains beyond other methods.

Deploying Dell PowerStore with Pulumi and Terraform Provider: Infrastructure as Code in Python

Introduction In the world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), developers and infrastructure engineers have multiple tools at their disposal to automate deployments. Pulumi has taken a significant step forward by allowing users to leverage Terraform providers directly within their Pulumi projects. They recently developed a powerful local SDK generator tool ...

Dell Automation Platform Security Architecture and Zero-Trust Design - Security Solution Brief

The platform delivers a secure automation foundation, based on zero-trust principles, for use in datacenter, cloud, and edge environments. It ensures continuous compliance and integrity through hardened blueprints, strong identity controls, and drift detection

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REST API and Dell Technologies Storage - PowerStore

Today we live in a world powered by REST APIs. And when it comes to REST APIs, Dell PowerStore is one of the best. Why? An important thing to understand is that PowerStore is a REST API-first system, which means all functionality that is exposed externally has been made available ...

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White Paper—Optimize Machine Learning Through MLOps with Dell Technologies and cnvrg.io

This white paper defines MLOps, describes its purpose and increasing relevance for practitioners of machine learning and artificial intelligence, and details how organizations can use MLOps to optimize their machine learning deployments and bring prototypes in

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Managing your on-premises infrastructure with HashiCorp Terraform – Part 6

This is the sixth blog post in a series to introduce infrastructure admins and engineers to Terraform, and explain how its used to manage on-premises physical infrastructure in a data center. Before we learn about automating the deployment and configuration of virtual machines (VMs), quickly review the previous blog posts ...

Dell OpenManage Enterprise Operations with Ansible Part 1: Inventory Management

The OpenManage collection Dell OpenManage Enterprise (OME) is a powerful fleet management tool for managing and monitoring Dell PowerEdge server infrastructure. Very recently, Dell announced OME 4.0, complete with a litany of new functionality that my colleague Mark detailed in another blog . Here, we'll explore how to automate inventory ...

Advance AI Sustainably: The Dell AI Factory helps reduce the environmental impact of AI

AI and GenAI are changing the metrics for global energy demand.

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Monitoring VEP4600 Hardware components status in VMware ESXi/vCenter

This document discusses how to use VMware ESXi/vCenter to monitor VEP4600 hardware components status. In large scale VEP4600 deployment, it is critical for corporate data centers to constantly monitor bare metal hardware components status, such as CPU cooling fan speed, temperature and more. In addition to VEP4600 BMC/IPMI based bare ...

Dell Private Cloud: Comprehensive Security by Design

This document describes how the Dell Private Cloud helps to secure your infrastructure from the inside out.

EKS Anywhere, extending the Hybrid cloud momentum

This post is the launch pad to explore all the different posts on deployment of EKS Anywhere on Dell infrastructure. You can find links to all the other blog posts here. The code repository for the entire saga series can be located on thecloudgarage/eks-anywhere (github.com) . The repository consists of ...

Integrated Edge Management in Smart Manufacturing - White Paper

As manufacturing enterprises embark on a smart manufacturing journey, this document provides practical advice for aligning an enterprise strategy with deployment of edge computing, as well as a methodology for the life cycle management of edge estates.

Scale your Model Deployments with the Dell Enterprise Hub

Overview The Dell Enterprise Hub ( https://dell.huggingface.co/ ) is a game changer for obtaining and using optimized models that run on some of the latest and greatest Dell hardware. The Dell Enterprise Hub has a curated set of models that have been deployed and validated on Dell Hardware. This blog ...

A DevOps Docuseries: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future

New and Updated Terraform Providers for Dell Infrastructure in Q2 2023 Release

Last quarter we announced the first release of Terraform providers for Dell infrastructure. Now Terraform providers are also part of the Q2 release cadence of Dell infrastructure as code (IaC) integrations. We are excited to announce the following new features for the Terraform integrations for Dell infrastructure: v1.0 of the ...

LabLabee Enablement Platform

AI-powered Telco labs that accelerate learning, testing, and innovation The LabLabee enablement platform provides a unique way to deliver on-demand, AI-powered real-world Telco labs for both learning and testing purposes. On the Learn side, LabLabee is the all-in-one engine for upskilling and reskilling. With Skill Tests, organizations can instantly gauge ...

Dell Enterprise Hub Performance Enhancements

The Dell Enterprise Hub (DEH) optimized containers for large language models (LLMs) have received significant performance improvements. Extensive testing on various Dell servers and GPUs, using real-world datasets, measured improvements in metrics like token throughput and latency. Key optimizations included improved time to first token and inter-token latency. The enhancements, ...

A Single RAG Solution to Generate CLI, REST API, and Ansible Tasks for PowerScale

Code generation is one of the use cases where existing Generative AI models really excel. Using coding assistants like Codeium and GitHub Copilot is becoming the norm for developers. While coding assistants and genAI chat tools work great for general coding tasks in various programming languages, their underlying models may ...

Support for Dell OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

Summary: Dell Technologies provides the capability to manage your PowerEdge servers & selected other devices power through OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager. Power Manager lets you view, measure, and control server power consumption and monitor server telemetry increase your infrastructure’s efficiency and performance.

Let Robin Systems Cloud Native Be Your Containerized AI-as-a-Service Platform on Dell PE Servers

Robin Systems has a most excellent platform that is well suited to simultaneously running a mix of workloads in a containerized environment. Containers offer isolation of varied software stacks. Kubernetes is the control plane that deploys the workloads across nodes and allows for scale-out, adaptive processing. Robin adds customizable templates ...

REST API and Dell Technologies Storage - PowerMax

In this post, we will discuss how you can use the REST API to manage Dell PowerMax storage arrays. We will use the Postman tool during the entire blog series. Feel free to download and install in your system to follow along. The first post in this series provides more ...

ClearML

ClearML with Dell AI Factory provides an all-in-one CSP solution, with GPUaaS, AIaaS, billing, and multi-tenancy, for a complete out-of-the-box AI service solution. ClearML GPU-as-a-Service for Telecom, with Dell AI Factory, provides an all-in-one CSP solution, featuring on-demand, shared compute; AI-as-a-Service; billing; and secure multi-tenancy, delivering a complete out-of-the-box, revenue-generating, ...

Accelerate environmental IT initiatives and achieve sustainability goals with Dell AIOps

Dell AIOps combines IT infrastructure energy and emissions tracking and forecasting with IT infrastructure analytics, so you can make informed decisions about consolidating workloads and refreshing technology for energy efficiency to reduce IT and carbon f

Automate Machine Learning with H2O Driverless AI on Dell Infrastructure

This technical white paper discusses the benefits of automated machine learning and the challenges of non-automated model development that it overcomes. The paper presents an overview of the H2O Driverless AI product from H2O.ai, along with a solution architec

Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition -- with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS pre-installed

Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition -- with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS pre-installed A month ago the Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition was recertified for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. This meant that owners were able to self-install the latest LTS knowing that it had been thoroughly tested by Canonical on the ...

Validated Designs for AI at the Edge - Solution Brief

Accelerate digital transformation with the power of AI at the edge.

Responsible Packaging at Dell Technologies

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Managing your on-premises infrastructure with HashiCorp Terraform – Part 5

Terraform Dell PowerMax This is the fifth blog post in a series to introduce infrastructure admins and engineers to Terraform and to explain how to use it to manage on-prem physical infrastructure in a data center. It is highly recommended that you quickly review the previous posts before proceeding with ...

Dell Enterprise Hub Command Line Utilities: A Technical Deep-Dive

Introduction: Hidden Challenge of AI Deployments. The speed at which open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) are hitting the market is breathtaking, but for the enterprise, there can be massive gaps between downloading a model and generating the first token. Before deployments can begin you need to verify the compatibility of ...

Multicloud Object Storage as a Service

As the use of cloud computing continues to grow, more and more organizations are adopting a multicloud strategy. This means that they are using multiple cloud providers, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. This can be a great way to get the best of both worlds, but it also ...

Q1 2024 Update for Terraform Integrations with Dell Infrastructure

This post covers all the new Terraform resources and data sources that have been released in the last two quarters: Q4’23 and Q1 ‘24. You can check out previous releases of Terraform providers here: Q1-2023 , Q2-2023 , and Q3-2023 . I also covered the first release of PowerScale provider ...

Dell PowerEdge: Getting Started with Redfish Ansible Modules

This white paper provides guidelines for getting started with Ansible and Redfish Ansible modules for PowerEdge systems. Techniques, practices, and the Ansible foundation described in this paper apply to other Dell Ansible modules and Ansible in general.

Streamlining Unit Testing with GitHub Copilot: A Developer’s Guide – Spring Boot Java and Golang Application

Unit testing is the backbone of robust software development. It ensures that the individual components of your codebase function correctly in isolation. However, writing comprehensive unit tests can be a labor-intensive task, especially when dealing with complex logic or large codebases. Enter GitHub Copilot – an AI-powered tool that promises ...

Q3 2024 Update on Terraform Providers for Dell Infrastructure

This post covers all the new Dell Terraform resources and data sources that have been released in the last quarter (Q3 2024). The following is a summary of the Dell Terraform Provider versions released over Q3 2024: PowerScale Provider v1.5.0 PowerFlex Provider 1.6.0 PowerStore Provider 1.2.0 Redfish Provider v1.4.0 What’s ...

Dell and Comet - Experiment Management for Machine Learning Projects

A two-part white paper covering the benefits of using the Comet machine learning platform with a Dell EMC AI-enabled infrastructure.

Requesting Dell Identity JSON web token

This blog will cover how to get Dell Identity JSON web token for access APEX Job Management APIs and other APIs. Before you begin 1. Retrieve your APEX API access key and secret at the “ Creating & Managing Dell APEX API access key Id and secret ” blog . ...

Code Assistant Made Easy by Dell Enterprise Hub

Overview With the rise of large language models (LLMs) as powerful code assistants, LLMs are proving to be invaluable tools for developers. Code, after all, is a language – a precise expression of intent understood by compilers and programs. Since LLMs excel at understanding and manipulating language, it's no wonder ...

Manage and Scale AI at the Edge

Dell Technologies and NVIDIA have been working together closely for many years to target some of the world’s most complex parallel computing problems.