Author: craig

Totally inspiring! Infrastructure as a service deployed with UCS (IaaS). From article (Cloud Provider) “CTC implemented an End-to-End FCoE architecture using Cisco Nexus 7000 Series…

I am still a bit oldschool and like the idea of having Cisco for IP and Brocade for FC. But FCoE is slowly selling itself…

Colin over at UCSGuru.com (a great UCS Blog follow it) talks about initial thoughts on SDN and how it relates to UCS. http://ucsguru.com/2013/05/07/my-initial-thoughts-on-sdn/

The Cisco UCS Power Calculator is essential in DC planning. http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/the-dirty-secrets-of-server-power/ Related post “Cisco UCS power per Chassis and PSU balance”. This shows how to…

UCS isn’t just cool looking and easy to manage… it rocks performance wise at the blade level. UCS = Sexy, Powerful, Best http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/ps10265/industry_benchmarks.html#~industry_benchmarks

Hey UCS’ers what SAN Fabric do you use?

Since UCS has redundant FI’s taking for granted that a dual SAN fabric is being used. This is tailored around how I setup Boot SAN’s…

When troubleshooting Cisco UCS Chassis issues checkout the Hybrid Display. Equipment/Chassis #/Hybrid Display. Can be a big help seeing Chassis, IOM, and FI to IOM…

Every great reason for UCS! http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/ps10265/ucs_advantage_video_library.html Don’t miss: Microsoft Hyper-V on UCS (4:37 min) Deploy Microsoft Hyper-V on Cisco UCS.

Download the UCS Platform Emulator 2.1(3aPE1) https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter/ucs_management/blog/2013/09/16/ucs-platform-emulator-213ape1-just-released Very good to stay current with latest UCS Emulator. Configuration from production systems can be imported. Great way…