I, along with seemingly everyone else, am jumping on the automation bandwagon as much as I possibly can. There are a ton of options out there from vendors and then several open-source(ish) solutions out there as well. In this article I’m going to go through what it takes to get started with SaltStack (or Salt for short).…
VMware has been getting involved with the OpenStack project over the last couple of years. They’ve created Hands On Labs geared towards OpenStack as well as creating the VOVA virtual appliance to make it easier for VMware administrators to get started with OpenStack. The VOVA appliance is not meant to be used in production. It…
n the previous installment of my series about configuring theCisco UCS B-Series blade servers and chassis, we finally got toconfigure the necessary pools in order to start creating service profiles, which is what I’ll cover in this article. You can think of a service profile as the personality that gets assigned to the server. It will dictate…
‘ve written about Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers in my three previous articles. I covered how to rack and stack them, make sense of the Cisco UCS Manager software, and configure ports for the environment. In this article I focus on getting various pools created so you can create service templates and get your blade servers running. If you haven’t…
I’ve taken you through racking and stacking Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers and provided an overview of UCS Manager. In this article, we’ll start doing some of the configuration necessary to get the blades not only up and running, but also connected to your IP and storage networks so you can actually use them. How to configure Cisco UCS…
Carrie Reber and Sheryl Koenigsberg In this episode I talk to Carrie Reber and Sheryl Koenigsberg of Infinio. We talk about how the Infinio Accelerator uses your current memory to create a server-side cache that will help improve performance in your virtual environments.
In my previous TechRepublic article I described how to rack and stack Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) B-Series blade servers. In this article I’ll delve more into how to configure theUCS Manager (UCSM) software for initial use. The UCSM can be intimidating, because there’s a ton of configurable features with the blades; I’ll concentrate on getting to know…
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Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers are increasing in popularity for various reasons. Some people like Cisco’s cabling innovations, reducing the ever-increasing rat’s nest of cables necessary within a data center. Others appreciate the amount of computing power you can fit into 6U (6 rack units), which is the size of one UCS chassis. There’s also the…
DevOps is here to stay, and a lot of infrastructure engineers (myself included) should start jumping on board to avoid getting left behind. (Learn more about DevOps by reading my TechRepublic article about Gene Kim’s book The Phoenix Project.) To read more click here.