HyperFlex Hyper-V 3.5 Easy Installation

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

Top 5 cool new features of Cisco HyperFlex DataPlatform 3.5

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

Wow ! What a colorful wedding.

On august 1st I got married and it was an awesome day. Because this wasn’t our first wedding, we wanted to have a nice atmosphere with a lot of fun. Preperation I propose to my wife in style. It was in Las Vegas at a chapel. Of course with the real Elvis singing for us … Read more

How dCloud Almost Saved My Life !

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

Can you connect Apple HomePod to Android Phone ?

This week I received an Apple HomePod. Very nice if you are an Apple user. Unfortunately I am using Android devices, so there was a challenge for me. What is a Apple HomePod ? Basically it’s a very good speaker, with a build-in Siri. You can give commands, listen to music, automate your home with … Read more

Add vHBA AFTER a HX installation.

During the easy installation of HyperFlex, you can select the option to create FC Storage during installation. Here’s a link to see if you can install HyperFlex software in 37 minutes.   Life is so easy with this option! The HyperFlex service templates are made that they will have vHBA setup. The only thing you will … Read more

How To Add VLANs AFTER a HyperFlex Installation

When you installed a HyperFlex Cluster, VLANs are created at the UCS-Manager and vSwitches of the nodes. But what if you just want to add VLANs to your environment ? How can you do that ? Add VLAN to existing HyperFlex Cluster Here you see some VLANs at the vSwitches of vCenter. And here are … Read more

Disaster Recovery with HyperFlex Replication 3.0

In HXDP 3.0 some features were added to replication. In a previous post I’d showed you how to configure Replication. See this blog about Replication 2.5. The procedure for the 3.0 version is still the same, but got a different look and feel. Recovering is way easier in this new HyperFlex release. Recover a VM … Read more