Category Archives: HCI

How to Expand your NetAPP HCI Cluster – Compute Nodes

By | March 1, 2020

In my last post I demonstrated how easy it was to a deploy NetApp HCI solution. In preparation for this blog post, I chose to only select 2 Compute Nodes during the NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE); allowing me to demonstrate how easy it is to add additional compute nodes to an existing deployment.  One of… Read More »

How to Deploy NetApp HCI using NetApp Deployment Engine (NDE)

By | January 31, 2020

What is NetApp HCI? NetApp HCI is an enterprise-scale hyper converged infrastructure that delivers predictable performance on a highly flexible, efficient architecture that is simple to deploy and manage. Make sure to visit NetApp University and check out the NetApp HCI Fundamentals course. Its very informative and will give you a deeper understanding of the underlying… Read More »

NetApp HCI Return to Factory Image (RTFI)

By | January 25, 2020

I have personally deployed several different hyper converged solutions in the past, I am excited to finally get my hands on a  NetApp HCI Cluster. The luxury of having  hardware available in our lab gives me the opportunity to create / simulate several deployment scenarios, customer proof  of concepts, perform firmware updates and give training. … Read More »