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…
Dell EMC PowerStore hands on
Thanks to Ingram had the opportunity to put my hands on a real – and remote – Dell EMC Powerstore array. Picture taken by me in our dataceter are all off now, the system is 600km away from me. The environment it was sitting consist two Dell EMC PowerEdge R740…
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1 – actual challenges
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…
NVMe arrived with Primera OS 4.2
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….
VMware vExpert 2020 application – mid year
The application has been opened for as we reached the mid of this year. If you have done things that help spreading the use of VMware products, presented and evangelized how VMware can help or have a blog/podcast this is your time to apply! What vExpert program is? vExpert is…
Nimble OS 5.2 is here
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…
Podcast E08 – Public/private/multi/hybrid cloud strategy and approach
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,…
VMware Horizon View 7.12 agent and RDSH server – possible bug
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…
Folding@home – in your datacenter
Unusual topic here, but I am sure many of you have at least one VMware cluster – except if you don’t use VMware, which gives an excuse to close this windows anyway – where you have some excess capacity. At least I really hope that my posts – in hungarian…
HPE Primera – models and options
I really hope you have met with HPE Primera – correctly pronounced called praɪmÉ›rÉ™ – 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…
HPE Nimble with Infosight – second part
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…
