My Personal Blog
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
Since the beginning of this year I am living and working in the United States. This relocation from the Netherlands was a big journey. If I am reading some other blogs and comments, it looks like it’s an easy thing to do. Well.. Trust me.. It is not ! YES! I have the new role … Read more
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
Last year I was thinking about FiveFinger shoes because people were saying it was better for you. Some people would even run on it ! Normal Shoes ? I have some really nice pair of shoes. The Floris van Bommel are great looking and fits like a glove. But I can’t walk 10k on it. … 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
For my birthday my wife gave me a coupon for a tandem parachute jump at http://paracentrumtexel.nl . On a nice Tuesday me and my wife went to Texel. Although I live close, it took about over 1 hour to get there. Texel is an island in front of Den Helder, so you will have to … 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