Storage

Fill your HyperFlex cluster with data for Testing.

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A lot of times testing are done without any load or with a limit amount of used capacity. When I do some test, I like to have the HyperFlex cluster to be at least of 50% of the capacity. How can you achieve this, because compression and de-duplication are default on. Linux VM First create … Read more

iSCSI : Creating a Target and Initiator

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To be honest, I never worked with iSCSI. After some questions, I had a closer look about the protocol. If you don’t have anything to do during a evening, you can read RFC 3720 and RFC 3721. The first thing you will need if you want to have some hands-on with the protocol is to … Read more

Add vHBA AFTER a HX installation.

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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

How To Add VLANs AFTER a HyperFlex Installation

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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

Training : Are you the New Hyper Converged Admin ?

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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

Top Features of the New Cisco 32 Gbps FC Switches

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Although Hyper converged solution are often found at customers, FC SAN Switches are still alive and renewed every time ! Cisco got now 2 new san switches which are capable of handling 32 Gbps FC traffic.   The MDS 9148T model got 48 ports non oversubscribed ports and you can start with licesesing 24 ports … Read more

Configuring Hyperflex 2.5 Replication

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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

USB Drive as Datastore on ESXi 6.0

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For my physical security I got a small PC with ESXi running on it. Now I needed more HDD space and I wanted to solve this with adding a USB drive to the PC for ESXi. Unfortunally I didn’t see it in the beginning as a datastore. But it’s possible ! Get the USB Drive … Read more