This stuff is hard - Data Center
I've been involved in low level configuration and let me tell you...
If you haven’t noticed, the past few posts have been about data center networking. We’ve spent the past couple of weeks bringing up an eVPN\VXLAN network to connect a new VMware vSphere Pod running on some Gen 10 HPE Servers. It was pretty simple to draw out. Next, we’ll migrate some workloads from our old pod running on some Dell 730xd on top of an Arista 10Gbps network.
It’s the picture infrastructure companies draw when they show up to sell you new gear. Except, we are going through the challenges of standing the stuff up. All of the big picture stuff works. Configuring the new network was straightforward.
We ran into some trouble with cabling between the new pod and the old pod. What I wrote off as low-hanging fruit is installing vSphere on the latest HPE boxes. I know we’ve been talking a lot about engineered systems lately. Unfortunately, we have yet to fund getting one. So, I’m stuck doing this stuff by hand. And, I’m running into all of the little frustrating bits such as missing the remote management software for the servers. So, installing the OS from the comfort of my home office isn’t an option. Not until we get the ISO.
Before you yell, “Public Cloud.” It doesn’t stop these low-level problems. Well, the issues aren’t hardware. The difficulties come with abstraction. Which we’ve talked about.