Cisco Roving Reporter chats with @jonisick (Joe Onisick) about his preso at VMworld 2014
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ACI APIC – Building a Fabric
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a brand new way of networking that allows network engineers and architects to not only implement network virtualization within their data center, but also manage their physical network from the same management console. For more information please see my previous article here or check out the Cisco documentation here.…
Create service profiles for Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers
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…
Create pools to maximize Cisco UCS blades’ stateless computing features
‘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…
Pro tip: Configure ports for the Cisco UCS B-Series blades environment
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…
Demystify Cisco’s intimidating UCS Manager with this basics rundown
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…
Pro tip: Rack and stack Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers
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…
Basic tips for using Cisco UCS C-Series servers with VMware vSphere
Every time I go to install VMware on a Cisco UCS C-Series server, I seem to forget something or come across a new caveat. If this sounds familiar, read these tech tips for configuring UCS with VMware vSphere. To read more click here.
Cisco Live 2013 highlights: Cisco ONE, UCS Director, UCS Central, and more
had the pleasure of attending Cisco Live in Orlando, FL for the first time this year. Cisco Live is Cisco’s large annual conference for customers and partners to attend technology sessions, network with other technologists, and listen to keynote speakers about the direction of the company. Here’s a brief summary of what I learned and participated in…