My Personal Blog
VDBench is a nice tool to see what the performance is of storage. To make life easier HXBench was created. You can see what the performance of your HyperFlex cluster is. And you can also use this tool to fill up your cluster with capacity! There are different methods to do it. [See This Post] … Read more
Via Intersight it is possible to install HyperFlex and HyperFlex Edge clusters very easy. Now you can also upgrade the ESXi Hypervisor of the HyperFlex cluster via Intersight. Upgrade Hypervisor Go to Intersight.com and select HyperFlex Clusters. You will see your HX Clusters and on the right you will see 3 dots. When you click … Read more
I am not a programmer but sometimes I create some small API integration for HyperFlex that make my life easier. I am writing in Python and I am using PyCharm with the plugin Kite. To have my code published and make sure the correct versions are on the web, I am using the PyCharm Github … Read more
How do you know when there is a new release of software or you are waiting for a bug fix… It’s possible with the Cisco subscription ! Get Email Notifications of Updates Just create a subscription at : https://cway.cisco.com/mynotifications When you login with your CCO account you will see : You can select End … Read more
I already created some post where I showed how easy it is to upgrade HyperFlex and how to upgrade ESXi. Wouldn’t it be nice if upgrading HyperFlex, ESXi and UCS Manager in one procedure.. With no bootstrap etc. If you are on a version prior HXDP 3.5, you will have to do the bootstrap process … Read more
HyperFlex is getting easier and easier to install, configure and upgrade. In the following post I am going to show you how easy a HyperFlex upgrade is. But first you will have to do some manual things in the UCS Manager. Here you will see my starting point. UCS Manager and we’re going to upgrade … Read more
With API calls you can configure and monitor HyperFlex. Here is a post about the API Explorer. Things changed. Since HyperFlex 3.5 there is a timeout for the token. Via the HyperFlex API Explorer, you can get your token and what is a nice script to get your token ? Get Access Token Script First … 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