Solving Persperctive Distortion… And what is it?

When I was creating video’s with the Lightboard of some other normal video’s, somebody noticed something strange. It was a distortion of my hand in the video. After a half a day googling about it, here is what I found: What is perspective distortion? When we see object, on our mind they are in perspective. … Read more

HX-CSI ReadWriteMany Block Device Example

ls block hx-csi

Specialized applications can need to read/write directly to a block device. The main use case are databases. A filesystem is more “human-readable” and it adds extra overhead. Instead of the filesystem, block devices are chosen more often. More information about Kubernetes can be found HERE. After the installation of Kubernetes and the HyperFlex Container Storage … Read more

HyperFlex 4.5 Container Storage Interface (HX-CSI) Installation

In a containerized environment, you need persistent volumes . With HyperFlex 4.5, iSCSI thisis possible. What are the difference between using iSCSI or CSI in a container. Information about Kubernetes Persistent Volumes can be found HERE. iSCSI can only do: ReadWriteOnce and ReadOnlyMany. HX-CSI can do both AND also ReadWriteMany. (Block) There is a very … Read more

Kubernetes Installation. [updated]

For the HyperFlex Container Storage Interface (HX-CSI) you will need a Kubernetes cluster. Here is the start of an image that have the right software on it and which you can clone before configuring Kubernetes. Start with a normal Ubuntu 18.04 installation. I just want to have certain versions of software and that is why … Read more

Cutting MP4 Into smaller Files.

To make some awesome videos, I’m using my GoPro Hero8 with 2K7 (2704×1520) resolution. This is because I’m using a green screen and although the end videos are in FullHD, with this resolution I can easily crop, resize parts of the video without losing any quality. Cutting MP4 into smaller files would make life easier. … Read more

iSCSI Support in HyperFlex 4.5

Intro HX iSCSI Video Serie

The latest HyperFlex Data Platform 4.5 can be found at: cisco.com/go/software and one of the new feature is iSCSI. With iSCSI you can have raw block storage device to your server over the network. I’ve already created a blog where I explained iSCSI in a nutshell and there is more! The playlist of all the … Read more

DIY Lightboard

The first time I used a lightboard was in 2018. Together with a colleague we created some awesome videos and it was fun to make them. With the Working From Home, I don’t have access to a real big lightboard and I wanted to create some content for the next HyperFlex Data Platform release. That … Read more