Tag Archives: Cisco

Cisco ACI Upgrade Walkthrough

Posted on July 3, 2017 by ucsguru
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Introducing Cisco UCS S-Series

Posted on November 1, 2016 by ucsguru

Today Cisco announced the Cisco UCS S Series line of storage servers. Now the more eagle eyed among you may think that the new Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server looks very much like the Cisco UCS C3260 Rack server (Colusa), … Continue reading →

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Want a Time Machine for your Datacenter?

Posted on June 15, 2016 by ucsguru

What’s that server doing? Like me, you’ve probably been asked that question many times, usually when looking at reclaiming resources, planning migrations or simply enforcing your company’s security policy. And if the answers to the above questions cannot be answered … Continue reading →

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Sizing your Cisco HyperFlex Cluster

Posted on March 24, 2016 by ucsguru

  Update 31st July 2018 Since my post below, Cisco have released a Hyperflex profiler and sizer tool, for more info of where to get it and how to install and use it, refer to the below video by Joost … Continue reading →

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Cisco HyperFlexes its muscles.

Posted on March 1, 2016 by ucsguru

If “Software Defined X” has been the hot topic over the last couple of years then “Hyperconvergence” is certainly set to be one of the hottest topics of 2016, like most buzzwords it’s a very overused term, the word even has “hype” in the … Continue reading →

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Cisco UCS Generation 3 First Look.

Posted on February 2, 2016 by ucsguru

I noticed last week that Cisco have just released the eagerly awaited Cisco UCS 3.1 code “Granada” on CCO. Whenever a major or a minor code drop appears the first thing I always do is read the  Release Notes , to see … Continue reading →

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Why did “Renaming” an unused VLAN bring down my entire production management environment?

Posted on October 27, 2015 by ucsguru

Why did “Renaming” an unused VLAN bring down my entire production Cisco UCS management environment? Continue reading →

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Cisco UCS Integration with Cisco ACI (Manual Method)

Posted on July 6, 2015 by ucsguru

This video gives a complete walkthrough of configuring a Cisco UCS domain into a Cisco ACI Fabric, and then extending the Cisco ACI Policy into a VMware vSphere environment within that UCS infrastructure. There has also been an update to … 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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