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A lot of times testing are done without any load or with a limit amount of used capacity. When I do some test, I like to have the HyperFlex cluster to be at least of 50% of the capacity. How can you achieve this, because compression and de-duplication are default on. Linux VM First create … Read more
When you have a HyperFlex system you must enable the licenses via Smart Licensing. Make sure you have a Smart License Account and a Virtual Account. Configure Smart Licensing for HyperFlex Connect to HyperFlex Connect and go to the WebCLI. Type in the command stcli license show all Here we see a HyperFlex cluster without … Read more
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
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
In HyperFlex 3.5 there are some cool features. See this blog. And there is more ! Some nice enhancements in HyperFlex Connect. This is the interface where you can configure HyperFlex. See it for yourself : [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IYEbO6SUHE[/embedyt] Other HyperFlex posts : Hyperflex & Cisco Intersight Re-Installation of HyperFlex. The Unsupported Way !
The HyperFlex profiler tool is very cool. It shows you some more insight about an environment which you then easily can convert into a new HyperFlex system. Now it’s possible to not only have more information about your VMWare environment, but also for your Hyper-V / Baremetal environment. You can find the HyperFlex profiler … Read more
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
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