Cisco UCS criticism and FUD: Answered

One of my readers recently submitted a comment asking me to respond to some criticisms he frequently hears about Cisco UCS.  This is a pretty typical request I get from partners and perspective customers, and its a list of stuff I ‘ve seen many times before, so I thought it would be fun to address [...]

Routing over Nexus 7000 vPC peer-link? Yes and No.

This is a Nexus 7000 design question that comes up from time to time: In a Nexus 7000 Vpc environment, how can I form a layer 3 adjency between the two switches. Lets say I want to run OSPF and want to create two SVIs on the two switches connected via Vpc, Will the neighborship [...]

Great questions on FCoE, VN-Tag, FEX, and vPC

I received some really good questions about FCoE, VN-Tag, FEX, and vPC from a reader named Lucas.  Although I had 10 other things to do, I just couldn’t resist highlighting these questions, and my answers, in a new post that I thought my readers would enjoy! Brad, You have amazing information about Nexus and UCS [...]

Cisco UCS Fabric Extender (FEX) QoS

What is the role of the fabric extender (FEX) in Cisco UCS QoS? This question was posted as a comment to my recent article VMware 10GE QoS Design Deep Dive with Cisco UCS, Nexus — as well as here, at the Cisco Support community forums. Brad: A comment to test my understanding and then a [...]

Cisco Nexus 7000 connectivity solutions for Cisco UCS

Last summer I was invited by the Nexus 7000 product management team at Cisco to help co-author a whitepaper covering general guidelines and best practices for network integration of Cisco UCS with Cisco Nexus 7000.  The idea was to take a lot of the content already presented in my video series Cisco UCS Networking Best Practices (in [...]