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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
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
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
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
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
There are many cool HX 2.5 features and one of them is native replication. But how do you configure this ? Well. Let’s start. What is Hyperflex replication ? It is possible to replicate VM’s from one Hyperflex Cluster to another Hyperflex cluster. In case of a disaster, you can (manually) start the replicated VM’s … Read more