Monthly Archives: September 2014

Cisco UCS New M4 Additions!

Posted on September 8, 2014 by ucsguru

Following on from last weeks big announcements and the teaser on the new M4 line-up I am pleased to say I can now post the details of that new line-up. The new M4 servers, are based on the Intel Grantley-EP … Continue reading →

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Cisco UCS: Major Announcement

Posted on September 4, 2014 by ucsguru

Hi All It’s finally September the 4th which means only one thing, the biggest single day of Cisco UCS announcements since the products launch 5 years ago. The strapline of the launch is “Computing at every scale” And “Scale” both … Continue reading →

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Unification Part 2: FCoE Demystified

Posted on September 3, 2014 by ucsguru

As promised here is the 2nd part of the Unified Fabric post, where we get under the covers with FCoE. The first and most important thing to clarify is as its name suggests Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) still uses … Continue reading →

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Unification Part 1: The Rise of the Data Centre Admin.

Posted on September 2, 2014 by ucsguru

This is the first of a 2-Part Post: Part one is a non-technical primer. Then in part two we have some fun sorting out your LLDP from your DCBX with sprinkles of ETS, covered in a PFC sauce topped off … Continue reading →

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