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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
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
In HXDP 3.0 some features were added to replication. In a previous post I’d showed you how to configure Replication. See this blog about Replication 2.5. The procedure for the 3.0 version is still the same, but got a different look and feel. Recovering is way easier in this new HyperFlex release. Recover a VM … Read more
In my lab I do a lot of testing, demo’s which includes also an installation of a HyperFlex cluster. If you just do a re-installation of a HyperFlex cluster, you can get all kind of errors because there is still a lot of information saved on the Storage Controller and on the ESXi partition. There … 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
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