By Simon Stevens, PowerFlex Engineering Technologist, EMEA. August 2021. One of the topics that customers and colleagues regularly reach out to me for assistance with is the topic of managing...
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Deploying Red Hat Openshift on bare metal nodes with the PowerFlex CSI driver
When I created the blog detailing the step by step process of deploying Kubernetes with PowerFlex (https://powerflex.me/2021/05/13/kubernetes-with-the-powerflex-csi-a-step-by-step-guide) little did I know that a few weeks later, my colleagues in our...
Continue reading...Oracle Linux KVM with PowerFlex
Earlier this month (June 2021) PowerFlex 3.6 was announced to the world, it includes a number of great enhancements, one particularly feature that has been added is support for Oracle...
Continue reading...PowerFlex, Adobe Flash, VMware vCenter and 2021
The king is dead (Flash), long live the king! (HTML5) Flash was never the best technology, but it was the best tool we had at the time and many applications...
Continue reading...Grafana monitoring itself for PowerFlex
Lisa: Dad, don’t you see you’re abusing your power like all vigilantes? I mean, if you’re the police, who will police the police?Homer: I dunno. Coast Guard? Recently my Grafana...
Continue reading...PowerFlex and OpenStack
PowerFlex / VxFlex / ScaleIO has a long and rich history with OpenStack – being a natural fit for a scale-out cloud compute architecture, it has been a mainstay of...
Continue reading...PowerFlex + Ansible + Terraform + Rancher & Kubernetes
My colleague Jonathan Asvestis has recently published a 3 part series on putting all of these great technologies together in the most simplest way I have seen to date. Do...
Continue reading...SNMP traps for PowerFlex
“Quick quick, write it down before you forget!” <– What I always tell myself when I’m in the middle of figuring something out. What you will need: PowerFlex Gateway Server...
Continue reading...Historical Reporting for your PowerFlex cluster with Grafana
Ever wished you could drill down back to any point in time on your PowerFlex / VxFlex / ScaleIO cluster? Then please read on! Using nothing but Open Source tools...
Continue reading...Open LDAP integration
2022 (Matt Hobbs) Update to this original article by Masanori Nakamura As per Masa’s original findings, certain things need to be done on a base installation for OpenLDAP to work...
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