My Personal Blog
Last year Hyperflex just got one configuration. Right now there are multiple different Hyperflex clusters, with their own limitations. I just updated my Hyperflex Sizing Tool on calculating # Capacity Nodes. Click the link for the Tool ! What’s new ? You can choose between a Replication Factor of 2 or 3. Hyperflex Still the same … Read more
Right now I got the FreeStyle Libre for a week and although there are some things for improvement, I really like it. Why use it ? As you may know I got diabetes and using the Omnipod. Although I do some running and watch my health, my hba1c value wasn’t great the last 6 months. … Read more
Cisco Hyperflex is getting more and more new features. Right now you can download the HX Data Platform 2.1(1b) software on the cisco.com/go/software site. What are the best features of the software ? Self Encryption Drives One way of protecting your data is to use SED or Self Encryption Drives. Hyperflex support those SED drives … Read more
My diabetes wasn’t stable all the time and I knew when I was sporting, the results were way better. That’s why I did the Mud Masters 2016 in Biddinghuizen. Of course I choose the smallest distance, which was 6 Km. Mud Masters 2017 My next challange was the Mud Masters Haarlemmermeer 2017 12Km. This time … Read more
What if you are a company with lots of branch offices and those offices are to small for a Cisco Hyperflex cluster. Or you are just a small company who doesn’t need much compute, memory, iops and storage capacity for you office. Think of offices where you just need and Active Directory Server, DNS, DHCP, … Read more
I want graphs ! Right now I got 5700 Watt of Solar Power on my roof. See my blog about : Off Grid in the Netherlands and Why 2nd hand solar panels Since a few years I also got a Smart Meter for electricity and gas. My solar power inverters are without any bleutooth or wifi connection. … Read more
Why would you install vCenter on a laptop ? When installing Hyperflex vCenter is mandatory. When you only got Hyperflex nodes, you can have the chicken or the egg story ! If you have 4 hyperflex nodes, you can install vCenter on the 4th node and install Hyperflex on the 3 nodes. Then move vCenter … Read more
Running is what I like. Not convert speed to pace to miles to km…. Running on speed. Although I am a beginner, preparation is what counts. So I got some trainingplans from Runtastic.com. They are using a pace/km. Nice, but I run with km/h in the Netherlands and miles/h in the USA. So sometimes it’s … Read more
Everybody can upgrade a Hyperflex cluster ! Changes in Hyperflex 2.0(1a) To have the Hyperflex All Flash working, you will need the Hyperflex 2.0 Data platform. With a hybrid solution (Hyperflex with the 10k spinning disks) you can also upgrade to the 2.0 version. During the installation you can configure FC and iSCSI connections ! … Read more
Nature is what I like and Solar Panels are my fun ! 5760 Watt is it enough ? 4 years ago I started with solar panels. Because the new ones were out of budget, I bought “old” ones with an old model inverter. They were not used but because the wattage of the panel was too … Read more