You might be considering whether to purchase Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) gear but want to test it out first. Or, perhaps you have UCS, but you’d like to test some things out with the UCS Manager (UCSM) that you don’t want to mess with in production. If so, the Cisco UCS emulator might be the thing for you.…
For the past few days I’ve been working on installing vSphere 5.1 on some Cisco UCS C-Series servers. This was a fresh install in a brand new environment, so I didn’t have to worry much about interrupting current production as I’d just set up the servers (Cisco UCS C220 M3), storage (EMC VNXe 3150), and software (vSphere 5.1)…
n the first part of this series we went through setting up the inside interfaces and static routes to enable communication on the inside. Of course, what good is that if we don’t have an outside route set up so your users can access YouTube and Facebook to their heart’s content. For this setup, you can either…
I know I’m not the first to attempt writing a succinct guide to quickly setting up a virtual private network (VPN) using Cisco gear, but I’m hoping this guide will be a one stop shop (blog) on how it’s done with an ASA 5505 that also allows users to connect to the internet. The ASA…