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.

Cisco VM-FEX Introduction Part 1

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Colin Lynch
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UCS Generation 2 Hardware and UCSM 2.0

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Colin Lynch
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vSphere 5 new licensing model.

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Colin Lynch

Up until now Cisco along with other vendors have been hugely driving up memory capacity while maintaining low CPU counts, Cisco’s Extended memory technology certainly gave them the edge in this space, however with greater DDR3 DIMM sizes ( 16GB … Continue reading →

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Happy 2nd Birthday UCS

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Colin Lynch

This month marks the 2nd birthday of Cisco UCS, 5400 customers and growing fast. Happy birthday. and what a cool cake.

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UCS 2.0 (Capitola) Announced.

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Colin Lynch

Hi All Last week at Cisco Live Las Vegas, Cisco annouced the eagerly awaited UCS 2.0 (coded Capitola) for Q3 this year. As well as a few expected software feature additions the big buzz is around the added Hardware thats … Continue reading →

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“UCS for my wife”

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Colin Lynch

Sad though it is I was trying to convey the value of Cisco UCS to my wife, and in trying to find an analogy that she could relate to, and that would get the point across, I sketched out the … Continue reading →

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Upgrade proceedure from 1.3 to 1.4(1)m

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Colin Lynch

Cisco UCS Upgrade from 1.3 to 1.4(1)m Please see the below two links for the full step by step guide to performing the upgrade. Part 1 Part 2

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HP’s Response to UCS

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Colin Lynch

http://h20338.www2.hp.com/enterprise/us/en/messaging/realstory-cisco-datacenter-view.html Have a look at the above URL for an interesting and forthright view from HP on Cisco UCS. Although a quick “find and replace” of boths vendors does bring back some memories. July 2006 – The Blu-Ray marketing machine … Continue reading →

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The 5 Karate Moves of Cisco UCS

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Colin Lynch

In the same way that the Karate Kid only knew 5 Karate moves and was then immediately able to beat black belts and win a whole tournament, once you know the 5 “Moves” below you will know all the key … Continue reading →

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Welcome to UCSGuru, Your in depth source on Cisco UCS

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Colin Lynch

This site is intended as a independent source for all things Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)

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