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…
Aruba User Experience Insight – experience
Preface: I am not an expert in wireless networking, nor Aruba products and capabilities, so if I write something incorrect, don’t send me to hell. Our company got a device like this and my colleague, Gabor Juhasz set it up, so he has the credit for all this. Wireless network…
HPE Nimble with Infosight – first part
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…
HPE Nimble related questions based on search box
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…
HPE Nimble questions
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…
Factors to consider in case of hyperconverged systems
After having two events related to HCI system I have spend quite some time explaining how to determine design factors and decision points if someone is evaluating hyperconverged as a solution. That list of course will never be finalized as every case is different, however if these points are taken…
Pursuing exams – being multi use engineer
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….
HPE Nimble – synchronous replication (finally)
UPDATE: 28-05-2019 I posted an article describing setup and test of peer persistence and replication. Check that as well. Nimble was always on par with 3PAR in the midrange storage category, it was safe to say it can perform under sub milisecond latency, can squeeze 300k IOPS for sure. This…
The shoemaker’s children always go barefoot – own infrastructure at home
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…
