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...
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The top 5 benefits you get with PowerFlex performance
Quite often when people see the the unbelievable storage performance that can be extracted out of commodity x86 servers with SSD’s when combined with PowerFlex software — they literally laugh...
Continue reading...You mean there’s a better way?
Until recently, managing your storage and infrastructure was often a lot like this. Inefficient, messy and downright painful. These are some of the examples of what was considered normal for...
Continue reading...MDM CLI logins for the lazy admin
Ever gone to login to your MDM SCLI and come up with this error?: Error: Failed to connect to MDM 127.0.0.1:6611 Normally in this case, you can just use the...
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...
Continue reading...What’s been happening in the world of VxFlex 2019?
Another year down, and another year of incredible things to come. 2019 was an excellent year – but first a quick recap of what VxFlex brings to the market in...
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