Some weeks ago I had a post about why we need a new design guide as with the arrival of NSX-T 3.0 and vSphere 7 many new options came into the picture. Just had to ask and now it is out 😀 Before we check that, let’s see what others…

In a proof of concept I am building a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment using it’s latest release – 4.0.1. Before the bring up, there were some questions how to deploy the management domain that uses 4 pnics per server, sorted into two distributed switches. 4.0 major release solved that, Cloud…

Back in the days when HPE has announded Primera as it’s future proof tier 0 storage, they proudly stated that Primera is NVMe ready, but not really shipping with NVMe drives at start. It was clear that the chassis, the controllers are all compatible with a later released NVMe media….

Let’s start with the summary, this is a milestore release I believe. This is not just a version that can be best described with some makeup here and there, but a version which delivers 1388 bug-fixes, 39 already existing feature enhancemens but 27 new features! For free! This is NOS…

As usual I was accompanied by two partners from VMware and together we discussed how to tackle the beast and where to start with the cloud journey. Mikolaj Wisniak Mikolaj is a strategist who has broad experience in large cloud projects and can tell the aspects of all party involved,…

My last two days was nothing but troubleshooting. About the thing above there are couple of articles, but not many. Certanly not if someone runs that RDSH machine on bare metal, not to mention if in VM shape, but not on VMware but HyperV. This is a normal and supported…

I really hope you have met with HPE Primera – correctly pronounced called praɪmɛrə – earlier on, at least here on my blog. Now that more and more information and details are no longer under top secret stamp, it is time to write and talk about it, especially what the…

In the first episode I promised that we will go trough what Infosight can do and to show lovely bits under “Labs” tab. Before we start let me remind you to always integrate your vCenter Server(s) with your Nimble array(s). This will open up a new horizon for sure, worth…

You might recall some presentations from HPE and some of those surely contained at least a slide about their cloud based management platform called Infosight. It came around a while ago in recent years HPE is adding more and more product lines to it. Is is not uncommon we see…

There have been quite a number of search expressions here on by blog, so decided to answer them. Not that many are clear but I am trying to do my best to “decode” them. Witness related questions Is witness required at all? When is it needed? The witness component is…

I’ve been checking the search phrases on my website and recently I started to see some queries regarding Nimble replication. Hereby some short answers for those questions: “nimble storage set up replication without infosight” To set up replication there is no need for Infosight. It can be done and only…

Couple of months ago read an article about exams in IT profession. If they worth the hard work to achieve them, but more importantly, to keep them. As today’s IT scene, regardless which part of IT we discuss here, but it is true and fair to say, crowded and multi-vendor….

Infrastructure at home is a typical example of two distinct view of the same artifact, some say it must be easy as possible while others make it more difficult than an mid sized company IT infrastucture. I used to be in the first group, I was happy with my TPlink/AP…