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A lot of times testing are done without any load or with a limit amount of used capacity. When I do some test, I like to have the HyperFlex cluster to be at least of 50% of the capacity. How can you achieve this, because compression and de-duplication are default on. Linux VM First create … Read more
When you have a HyperFlex system you must enable the licenses via Smart Licensing. Make sure you have a Smart License Account and a Virtual Account. Configure Smart Licensing for HyperFlex Connect to HyperFlex Connect and go to the WebCLI. Type in the command stcli license show all Here we see a HyperFlex cluster without … Read more
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
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
With API calls you can configure and monitor HyperFlex. Here is a post about the API Explorer. Things changed. Since HyperFlex 3.5 there is a timeout for the token. Via the HyperFlex API Explorer, you can get your token and what is a nice script to get your token ? Get Access Token Script First … Read more
In HyperFlex connect you can see a lot of information of the system. What vCenter is used, the versions. But what if you just need the UCS Manager where the HyperFlex system is connected to. Where can you find it ? It’s not here. You will have to go to the Web CLI : And … Read more