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Hyperconverged Infrastructure typically uses rack servers. Rack servers have the capability of enough disk space and additional cards, like GPUs.VMware VSAN is currently the market leader in hyperconverged Infrastructure software, and would it be nice to have it run on a sustainable, award-winning solution like UCS X-Series? Think of all the advantages of the UCS … Read more
It was already impossible to login with root in HyperFlex Connect, but you still could login with SSH or locally with a root account. In HXDP 4.5 there is the Restricted Shell or Admin Shell. What is the Restricted Shell? In the restricted shell there is a limited number of commands that you can perform. … Read more
The latest HyperFlex Data Platform 4.5 can be found at: cisco.com/go/software and one of the new feature is iSCSI. With iSCSI you can have raw block storage device to your server over the network. I’ve already created a blog where I explained iSCSI in a nutshell and there is more! The playlist of all the … 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 !
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
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
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