Month: February 2020

How to get Cisco Updates (HyperFlex and all other Cisco devices)

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How do you know when there is a new release of software or you are waiting for a bug fix… It’s possible with the Cisco subscription !   Get Email Notifications of Updates Just create a subscription at : https://cway.cisco.com/mynotifications   When you login with your CCO account you will see : You can select End … Read more

iSCSI : Creating a Target and Initiator

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To be honest, I never worked with iSCSI. After some questions, I had a closer look about the protocol. If you don’t have anything to do during a evening, you can read RFC 3720 and RFC 3721. The first thing you will need if you want to have some hands-on with the protocol is to … Read more

Upgrade HyperFlex From 3.5.1 and greater

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I already created some post where I showed how easy it is to upgrade HyperFlex and how to upgrade ESXi. Wouldn’t it be nice if upgrading HyperFlex, ESXi and UCS Manager in one procedure.. With no bootstrap etc. If you are on a version prior HXDP 3.5, you will have to do the bootstrap process … Read more

Prepare UCS Manager to be upgrade by HyperFlex

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HyperFlex is getting easier and easier to install, configure and upgrade. In the following post I am going to show you how easy a HyperFlex upgrade is. But first you will have to do some manual things in the UCS Manager. Here you will see my starting point. UCS Manager and we’re going to upgrade … Read more

Cisco Live Barcelona 2020 (CLEUR)

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This year I had again the privilege to speak at a Lab and a Breakout session during Cisco Live Barcelona 2020 or CLEUR for short. This was not my first time in Barcelona (See this blog) and its always a busy, but very nice time. Lab and Breakout Together with my colleague Gina Nienaber we … Read more