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How do you know when there is a new release of software or you are waiting for a bug fix… It’s possible with the Cisco subscription ! Get Email Notifications of Updates Just create a subscription at : https://cway.cisco.com/mynotifications When you login with your CCO account you will see : You can select End … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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