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Joost van der Made We got a demo unit of Simplivity and some documentation, but unfortunally that documentation isn’t very clear. Maybe the docs at the site are good, but I don’t have access to that. After some time spending with support I created this article just for my own knowledge.
Here are the requirements before doing the steps below :
Currently I am studying for the CCIE Collaboration written to re-certify my CCIE. It was a long time since I worked with the translation rules, so here’s some nice stuff with a load of rules. Basic cme translation rules : /123/ /456/ = replace 123 with 456 ^ = begins with $ = end of … Read more
When you get the error message : after you hit the Launch UCS CIMC KVM console link make sure that your DNS is working properly ! When my DNS server wasn’t running, I hit the error message like above !
Dev-ops are cool ! So you wanne be cool. Learn the following nice features with Open NX-OS for the Nexus 9000:
Lets enable the bash-shell and nxapi feature :
Sometime you know the default passwords and sometimes you don’t…. This time I forget it and I had to read the manual… Yuk! 🙂 VSMC : localadmin / secur4u VSOM : admin / admin After the first time you login at the system, the system will ask you to change the password.
In short : It’s a server where you run VMWare vsphere and you’re using local storage for your NAS/SAN with some better functions than the standard local datastores of VMWare got.
Is it possible to create one for home/SMB purpose ? Well.. I saw the page FreeNas on VMWare ESXi 6.0 and I thought ; Let’s give it a try.
When I wanted to create a new virtual machine, I got an error at the HD part and I was unable to create a HD larger then 16 Gb in size !
The error was : “The disk capacity entered was not properly formed number or was out of range. It has been replaced with the nearest acceptable value.
UCP, vSpex, VersaStack, OmniStack, FlashStack and the list is going on and on. So many
Converged Infrastructures and/or hyper-converged solutions. All based with Cisco Networking and Cisco UCS. But what about FlexPod ? It’s here for 5 years right now and is it still up to date and relevant? What are the key differentiators for the customer to still have a closer look at this solution ?
Yes, I like the Cisco MDS Switches. Right now they got the perfect portfolio for every customer with SAN Switches. Including you ! Just have a peek at the TOP 5 reasons and maybe, just maybe, you like it like I do ! TOP 5 : 5 : Integrated Management. With the standard integrated Device … Read more
Right now I am testing an UCS Director system with some workflows and some nice API’s. Ofcourse not everything is going smooth. And right now I hit the problem that I don’t have any free IP addresses in a pool. Everything got the state “Reserved“, although the system are not using them. Here is the … Read more