Connect UCS FI 6332 to 10 Gb Network

It’s nice that the bandwidth of the servers and the whole UCS system is getting faster and faster. Sometimes you must connect the FI 6332 with all 40 Gb ports to a 10 Gb network. How do you configure the Fabric Interconnect to have a 10 Gb connection ? Port Configuration First of all you … Read more

Speaker at Cisco Live Barcelona 2018

Yes ! After doing a design clinic in 2010 and presenting Social Miner in 2012, I was lucky to do a technical Seminar in 2018 at CLEUR (Cisco Live Europe). TECCOM-1463 The personal highlight of CLEUR 2018 was of course for me, my presentation. Because my session was on monday at 08:45, I started only … Read more

Cisco Live Barcelona : TECCOM-1463

Yeah !!! I am a presenter at Cisco Live Barcelona 2018 TECCOM-1463 : Technical Seminar On mondays there are Technical Seminars which you can follow for an additional fee. This year I am presenting the Hyperflex Ins and Outs Technical Seminar. Because participants are paying extra, the preperation should be very very good and that’s … Read more

Hyperflex & Cisco Intersight

There it is : https://intersight.com/ Cool if you know what it is and what it can do. Why  Cisco Intersight? Managing Data center devices can be challenging. We use the applications which are running in the Data center 24/7 and we don’t want to have any outage. And if there is one, everybody can’t wait until … Read more

Hyperflex Post Install

When you’re done with the installation of Hyperflex, there are still some steps left. You can configure it manually, but you can also use an automated script. Just go to https://<installer ip>/mssh  when you have the CLI window just type : post_install Now you got some questions and after you answered them, the cluster is … Read more

Top Links to Hyperflex Posts

As you know I wrote some blog about Cisco Hyperflex. To make a search easier, here are my links to the blog posts. Hyperflex Links : Really ? 37 Minutes to install Cisco Hyperflex ? Howto use Hyperflex Rest Explorer. (With Video) Expanding Hyperflex with a Compute Node is So easy ! Hyperflex Cluster Information … Read more

Howto use Hyperflex Rest Explorer. (With VIDEO)

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

Start Relaxing and let HX Profiler and Sizer do the Trick !

Do you have a hard time to discover your workload ? What are you running and what resources does it need from your VMWare environment. Stop counting manually ! Use Hyperflex Profiler and Sizer tool. Of course you can have a look at my HX Sizing tool or the official Cisco Hyper Sizer for Partners. … Read more