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In my lab I do a lot of testing, demo’s which includes also an installation of a HyperFlex cluster. If you just do a re-installation of a HyperFlex cluster, you can get all kind of errors because there is still a lot of information saved on the Storage Controller and on the ESXi partition. There … Read more
Every now and then there are some new versions of software. Not only for Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform, but also for ESXi. It’s not recommended to do an auto update of vmware, because Cisco HyperFlex is using their own ESXi image with pre installed vib’s. You can download the ESXi for HyperFlex at www.cisco.com/go/software and … Read more
Sorry for all the non-dutch people, but the training is only in dutch. Op 28 mei, 18 juli en 12 september 2018 geven we een training voor de nieuwe hyper-converged admins. Door de huidige technologie verdwijnt de lijnen tussen de verschillende technologieen. Om de admin van de toekomst te zijn, moet je bepaalde diepgang hebben op … Read more
I know. No one looses his passwords. Everybody keeps them save in their head or something. But what if you can’t remember the password of the HyperFlex Cluster, but you do know the password of the ESXi controller. Howto recover your HyperFlex Password ? If you want to login into the HX cluster via the … Read more
It’s possible that you installed the HyperFlex cluster and register it to a vCenter server and now you want to move it to another vCenter server. There are serveral reasons to do this. During the installation of HyperFlex, everything is done by the installer. Hosts were added, plugin was loaded. But how can you easily … Read more
Although Hyper converged solution are often found at customers, FC SAN Switches are still alive and renewed every time ! Cisco got now 2 new san switches which are capable of handling 32 Gbps FC traffic. The MDS 9148T model got 48 ports non oversubscribed ports and you can start with licesesing 24 ports … Read more
With all kind of new features, who don’t want to upgrade to the latest and greatest release of HyperFlex Data Platform. Curious about some features ? Just read this blog : 5 Great Features of HyperFlex 3.0 Upgrade to HyperFlex 3.0: Upgrading the HyperFlex software it’s easy. But first you will have to read the … Read more
There it is. Hyperflex Data Platform 3.0 is downloadable via the http://cisco.com/go/software site. More nice features are added to the HyperFlex Data Platform software. Here are some great features in no particular order. In my next posts I will go deeper into details of the features. Feature 1 : Streched Cluster Having a backup … Read more
On my laptop I am using Virtualbox often. It’s easy and quick. Sometimes you will have to convert a VMWare .ova file into a Hyper-V file. Now you can find a ton of application on the internet and some are working. Because I got already Virtualbox installed on my laptop, I am using this application. … Read more
Sometimes I buy some nice gadgets. And a few days ago I received my device. It’s an internet radio with radio, mediaplayer and DAB Radio. Unfortunally I didn’t have a good reception. Because of this, I couldn’t play any radiostation via DAB. FM was okay, and because DAB is digital, the sound is way better. … Read more