Ubuntu Automated Installation (For K8S)

Because I am doing a lot of testing it can be rewarding to do a complete re-installation of a Kubernetes cluster. As a result the only thing I disliked was the manual process of the Ubuntu installation.Here is a procedure to automate a complete Ubuntu installation and customize it. Requirements Before you can start, make … Read more

HyperFlex Hyper-V 3.5 Easy Installation

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

Re-Installation of HyperFlex. The Unsupported Way !

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

Easy install of Hyperflex 1.8.1c

Hyperflex 1.8.1c installation Cisco Hyperflex Hyper converged (HCI) solution is getting easier and easier ! Before installing the only thing you will have to do is to download the Hyperflex 1.8 installer software from http://www.cisco.com/go/software The Fabric Interconnect and servers are already with the correct version of the needed software. The hyperflex 1.8 installer is an … Read more

Virtualbox error : VT-X is not available

Virtualbox could not start image again.

For installation of a Cisco Hyperflex system I am using Virtualbox on my laptop for the image. This is working perferct!

During a devnet session I had to install Docker on my laptop and I could create a Sparkbot. Really cool by the way. Then I wanted to install Hyperflex via my laptop, but I received some really strange errors.

VT-X is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX

Virtualbox error
Virtualbox error

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Simplivity OmniStack installation

We got a demo unit of Simplivity and some documentation, but unfortunally that documentation isn’t very clear. Maybe the docs at the site are good, but I don’t have access to that. After some time spending with support I created this article just for my own knowledge.

Here are the requirements before doing the steps below :

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