Author Archives: Colin Lynch

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About Colin Lynch

Technical Architect and Data Center Subject Matter Expert. I do not work or speak for Cisco or any other vendor.

UCS Manager 2.1

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Colin Lynch

As you may be aware a major UCS Manager update has been in development for the past 12 Months or so, I have been keeping a keen eye on this as there are several aspects to the new release which … Continue reading →

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HA with UCSM Integrated Rack Mounts

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Colin Lynch

Hi All One of the founding members of the Cisco UCS Avengers , Fabricio Grimaldi (who also happens to be the Cat who first introduced me to Cisco UCS) came up with a great question. “How does HA (Split Brain … Continue reading →

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UCS Central Announced

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Colin Lynch

So it’s finally here, the product we have been anxiously awaiting for over a year since the vague details and whispers of what was known as “Pasadena” began to circulate. If like me you do some very large Cisco UCS … Continue reading →

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Have a Question about Cisco UCS? Ask it Here!

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Colin Lynch

Leave your question in the comments section. Before this section was added many questions were left in the About section above, so why not also check there to see if your question has already been asked.

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Cisco UCS Traffic Separation

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Colin Lynch

Most of my blog posts derive not from what I think you ought to know about Cisco UCS although some certainly do, but generally from customer questions about the technology, and if one customer is asking a particular question then … Continue reading →

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Cisco UCS Active Directory Integration

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Colin Lynch

Last week on Twitter I asked for the topics people would most like to see covered on my blog, and the winner was Cisco UCS and LDAP / AD Intergration so here it is: As a side note I also … Continue reading →

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UCS for Storage People.

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Colin Lynch

This latest post in my “UCS for….” Series attempts to put across the Cisco UCS key concept of the Blade and its role in the UCS system for people already familiar with Storage Concepts. The role of the Blade has … Continue reading →

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UCS for HP People

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Colin Lynch

Following on from the popular “UCS for my Wife” I have been inspired to write a quick Architecture comparison for people familiar with the HP C7000 Chassis who want a quick UCS comparison. I’m not going into the “which is … Continue reading →

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UCS and VCS a great combination.

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Colin Lynch

Let it not be said that I don’t listen to my readership, a couple of weeks ago I tweeted that I had setup one of our in-house Cisco UCS pods to our Solutions Centre Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) Ethernet … Continue reading →

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Cisco UCS Fear the power?

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Colin Lynch

In a lot of the workshops I host or skills transfer sessions I conduct with clients, The response is generally wow this stuff is incredibly powerful, being able to update 160 servers firmware simultaneously in a couple of mouse clicks, … Continue reading →

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