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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
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
InterSight.com is a cloud monitoring and configuration manager for UCS and HyperFlex products. You can not only monitor HyperFlex, but also do a complete installation of HyperFlex via InterSight. When you have a lot of servers, you want to search in an easy way to find the right server or HyperFlex Cluster. How to do … Read more
For the Cisco Live US 2019 HyperFlex Data Protection Deep Dive breakout, I needed a HyperFlex 4.0 Stretched cluster to show some failures that can be beaten. In this post I will show the steps to install a stretched cluster (or synchronous replication cluster) What is a Stretched Cluster ? If you want to have … Read more
In HyperFlex 3.5 there are some cool features. See this blog. And there is more ! Some nice enhancements in HyperFlex Connect. This is the interface where you can configure HyperFlex. See it for yourself : [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IYEbO6SUHE[/embedyt] Other HyperFlex posts : Hyperflex & Cisco Intersight Re-Installation of HyperFlex. The Unsupported Way !
The HyperFlex profiler tool is very cool. It shows you some more insight about an environment which you then easily can convert into a new HyperFlex system. Now it’s possible to not only have more information about your VMWare environment, but also for your Hyper-V / Baremetal environment. You can find the HyperFlex profiler … Read more
As you can see in this post, the installation of HyperFlex is very easy. And how is the installation of HyperFlex Hyper-V ? Well, I finally found out myself and I can tell you it was easy !!! There is a fine installation guide which you can find here. It’s so good, that I didn’t do … Read more
Although the HyperFlex 3.5 release is not a major release, there are still a lot of features which are interessting. Here are 5 new features which are very very cool : 1 : Easy Upgrade It was already very easy to upgrade HyperFlex software and the UCS Manager and now it’s even easier ! You … Read more
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 a lot of video’s of the demo’s and I always … Read more