Wow ! What a colorful wedding.
On august 1st I got married and it was an awesome day. Because this wasn’t our first wedding, we wanted to have a nice atmosphere with a lot of fun. Preperation I propose to my wife in style. It was in Las Vegas at a…
How dCloud Almost Saved My Life !
The saterday before my Cisco Live presentation there was a power outage in my lab. I had already for 5 hours no connection to my HyperFlex cluster and I was getting very very nervous. The lab would be used during the TECINI-1464 session. Of course I had…
Can you connect Apple HomePod to Android Phone ?
This week I received an Apple HomePod. Very nice if you are an Apple user. Unfortunately I am using Android devices, so there was a challenge for me. What is a Apple HomePod ? Basically it’s a very good speaker, with a build-in Siri. You…
Add vHBA AFTER a HX installation.
During the easy installation of HyperFlex, you can select the option to create FC Storage during installation. Here’s a link to see if you can install HyperFlex software in 37 minutes. Life is so easy with this option! The HyperFlex service templates are made that…
What Did I Do At Cisco Live Orlando 2018 ?
When I was talking with people that I was going to Cisco Live Orlando to speak for 4 hours, everybody thought : Well, that’s a nice vacation. Being at Cisco Live is NOT a vacation and to prepare for a session, you will have to…
How To Add VLANs AFTER a HyperFlex Installation
When you installed a HyperFlex Cluster, VLANs are created at the UCS-Manager and vSwitches of the nodes. But what if you just want to add VLANs to your environment ? How can you do that ? Add VLAN to existing HyperFlex Cluster Here you see…
Disaster Recovery with HyperFlex Replication 3.0
In HXDP 3.0 some features were added to replication. In a previous post I’d showed you how to configure Replication. See this blog about Replication 2.5. The procedure for the 3.0 version is still the same, but got a different look and feel. Recovering is…
Re-Installation of HyperFlex. The Unsupported Way !
In my lab I do a lot of testing, demo’s which includes also an installation of a HyperFlex cluster. If you just do a re-installation of a HyperFlex cluster, you can get all kind of errors because there is still a lot of information saved…
ESXi upgrade for Cisco HyperFlex
Every now and then there are some new versions of software. Not only for Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform, but also for ESXi. It’s not recommended to do an auto update of vmware, because Cisco HyperFlex is using their own ESXi image with pre installed vib’s….
Training : Are you the New Hyper Converged Admin ?
Sorry for all the non-dutch people, but the training is only in dutch. Op 28 mei, 18 juli en 12 september 2018 geven we een training voor de nieuwe hyper-converged admins. Door de huidige technologie verdwijnt de lijnen tussen de verschillende technologieen. Om de admin van…