Cisco UCS Director 6.0 with Hyperflex integration (Video)

September 21, 2016 by Joost van der Made

Automate Hyperflex with UCS Director 6.0 ! The software is available on the Cisco web site : www.cisco.com/go/software In a short video I will show you a working setup with a HX Cluster and UCS Director 6.0. Not only can you monitor the Hyperflex Cluster, but also configure and automate it with workflows. Cisco … Read more

Really ? 37 minutes to install Cisco Hyperflex ?

November 13, 2020September 16, 2016 by Joost van der Made

Configuring the FI / UCS Manager

This week I went to a customer to install Hyperflex HX240 cluster with 4 nodes. Everything was already racked and stacked.

The first step is to configure the FI’s with ip addresses and a password. Just connect a console cable to the FI and your laptop. It’s easier to setup the FI-A and when the setup is finished then power on the FI-B. The procedure to setup a FI-B is already described at : http://dcccie.joostvandermade.com/?p=25

You should have the correct Firmware for the FI’s. Via the CLI or GUI you can upgrade the FI to the correct firmware. I prefer GUI although via CLI is also very easy. You can find the Dependencies int the Release Notes of Hyperflex

Fitness Trackers : Why ?

September 4, 2016 by Joost van der Made

Fitness Trackers : Why ? Don’t get me wrong. I like gadgets. And this week I was thinking of buying a smartwatch/ fitness tracker device. But I didn’t. In my hand I had a Samsung gear 2 and every function was there which I wanted. GPS, sleep tracker, heart monitoring etc. Then I found out that … Read more

Howto dress when it is : Business Casual!

August 17, 2016 by Joost van der Made

What is a Business Casual dress code? Okay. I’ve got a company party and the dress code is : Business Casual. So I looked it up internally, but there was never a written dress code. Some colleagues told me I had to look it up on the internet… Cause everything on the internet is true… That’s … Read more

Cisco Hyperflex Sizing Tool

May 27, 2016 by Joost van der Made

YOU CAN FIND MY PERSONAL CALCULATOR AT : http://bit.ly/HyperflexSizingTool If you know how to size your Cisco Hyperflex system, it’s not that hard! What is the formula ? (((Disksize in TiB * #Disk per Node * (#Nodes -1)) / VRF) * 0.8 * Dedup * Compression WOW ! Let’s explain a little bit : … Read more

No more CCIE Voice !

February 3, 2016 by Joost van der Made

I passed my CCIE Voice lab in feb 5th 2008. In 2014 Cisco changed the CCIE Voice into CCIE Collaboration, which was a logical step for them to do. Before feb 16 2016 you could change your CCIE Voice into CCIE Collaboration if you passed the 400-051 written (or Collab lab) and create a case … Read more

Internet is getting faster. Now the bottleneck is Storage !

January 14, 2016 by Joost van der Made

Well. Right now I don’t have any problem that my storage can’t keep up with my internetconnection.

And that has to do with my very slow internetconnection :

Hopefully I will get fiber-to-the-home somewhere this year. And when I got 300 Mb, will I be able to download at that speed ?

Of course I can test it with speedtest.net, but then all data remains in memory. Nothing is written to storage. (Doesn’t matter if it’s HDD or SDD.) So how to change this is you don’t want to invest in different hardware.

Think smart ! What is the fastest storage we got for ages….. It’s memory! I used RAM Drives since DOS 4.0 or something.

Solution : Can’t add an EMC VNX 5500 to UCS Director 5.4

January 14, 2016 by Joost van der Made

With UCS Director you can easily automate your Data center.

Not only the Cisco devices, but also third party devices like the EMC VNX 5500. But when I tried to add the VNX to the UCS-D system, I received an error and had a problem… Howto fix this. Gladly there is some good documentation after a good search. 😉

Here’s a video I created with the solution.

Howto Add an EMC VNX 5500 to UCS Director 5.4

Watch this video on YouTube.

If you don’t like watching a 5 minute video, here is an old fashion blog. 😉

Mac book won’t charge !

January 14, 2016 by Joost van der Made

I got a mac book of almost 3 years old…. And I had today a problem that my mac didn’t charge itself ! Sometime the light was green and most of the time it was off. The Powersupply was connected and also recognized by the system. Why wasn’t it charging ? The problem was Camtasia and … Read more

Raspberry Pi : Apache & Python Error 500

November 13, 2020December 29, 2015 by Joost van der Made

Raspberry Pi Apache Error I am trying to make some homemade domotica and I tested everything on my mac. That was working, but when I transfered everything to the Raspberry Pi, I had the server 500 error. Perl was working fine, but not the python scripts. I googled for an hour and didn’t see any … Read more