

Upgrade and Consolidation Before and After
As most of you already know, I have performed a major face lifted moving from Dell host and storage to Cisco Hyperflex. I wanted to show you what we came from to where we are now so you can see how much cleaner and faster the new solution is. Before As you are looking at the old environment, this is 5 Dell nodes just running ESXi connecting to Cisco switches to connect to the Dell Equallogic storage via ISCSI connections. We had all network and storage traffic communicating a
Cisco Hyperflex Came to the Show
So, anyone who has been reading my page knows about a month ago I installed and configured my very first Cisco Hyperflex clusters with Vmware 6.5. This was to replace old Dell storage and compute. I just wanted to give everyone an update on how is has been running and what I have heard from my business partners on the new gear. What do I think about Cisco Hyperflex compared to the old san arrays and vsan cluster I have worked with in the past. I can only say three words about
Fear of the unknown
Good Morning everyone, A couple of weeks ago I posted something about change and how there are some people in IT who do not like change. I am starting to see why some people do not like change and its like they fear change. I know your thinking to yourself what does this guy talking about people fear change What do I mean by some people fear change because of the unknown and I am not just talking about that person and what they do not know but what others do not know about th