UCS Emulator Download (you can import your production config). If your vendors want to know more about your environment you can have the install…
Unified Computing from Crate to Cloud
Unified Computing from Crate to Cloud
UCS Emulator Download (you can import your production config). If your vendors want to know more about your environment you can have the install…
Update 2/24/2012 FreeNAS does not support FC Targets. Setting up iSCSI boot now since upgrading to 2.0 Code level. So far it is a bit…
IT architect finds Cisco UCS capabilities and cost more compelling than servers Great article on “Selling UCS” Key Selling points and reasons UCS…
Having been booting from SAN and not always loving it, wondering how others feel about iSCSI boot in2.0? To me this is a game changer. WAY EASIER. It…
If a service profile is associated with a blade, and the blade is powered off, you get a Major Fault on interfaces being down. LAME. Be so nice if there was an…
It is an interesting project. Servers just need 200-500 IOPS for a nice boot. So this might be a great “lab” SAN for boot and volumes. Everyone has some extra HP…
It is said this is fixed in 1.4(3q). But have seen on the Cisco forums that is “started happening” for some on this release. Resolved Caveats The…
Seems before long UCS will have all current ESX features for Hyper-V. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/cisco-bringing-virtual-switch-support-to-hyper-v-in-windows-server-8.ars Think this would be a game changer. ESX is “Better Today” most would agree.…
On our 6104 UCS with 14 Chassis of B200 M2 Blades we ran into bug (CSCTR74091) http://www.cisco.com/web/software/datacenter/ucs/UCS_2_0_Software_Advisory.htm There is a Thread on the Cisco forums…
This is my blog, where I post stuff about UCS that I am working on. Along with opinions etc. Articles in the works. Craig