My Personal Blog
I am not a programmer but sometimes I create some small API integration for HyperFlex that make my life easier. I am writing in Python and I am using PyCharm with the plugin Kite. To have my code published and make sure the correct versions are on the web, I am using the PyCharm Github … 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
API’s are hot ! You can automate almost anything you like. If you want to automate Hyperflex you can use UCS Director (See this blog) or you can write something yourself. There is a page at the Hyperflex cluster with a rest explorer build in. Not only the schema, or requests, but also the output … Read more
Right now I am testing an UCS Director system with some workflows and some nice API’s. Ofcourse not everything is going smooth. And right now I hit the problem that I don’t have any free IP addresses in a pool. Everything got the state “Reserved“, although the system are not using them. Here is the … Read more
Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC), Software Defined Storage (SDS). A lot of buzz words and is it really something new ? Let’s focus on SDN. What is the problem and what is SDN resolving. More then 15 years ago I was a networking guy. At greenfields I had to deploy sometimes … Read more