Cisco UCS vs. HP Matrix: strategic vs. tactical approach This article by Steve Kaplan is a well researched comparison of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) versus HP Matrix. Steve provides lots of good technical data along with a high level look at the key architecture differences for data center virtualization … one strategic, the other [...]
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Best Practices in Deploying Cisco Nexus 1000V on Cisco UCS This document provides design guidance and best practices in deploying the Cisco Nexus 1000V switches embedded within the VMware vSphere hypervisor on top of the Cisco Unified Computing System with respect to deployment options using the various adapter types that the Cisco Unified Computing System [...]
Simple use cases for Network Interface Virtualization
October 23, 2009 By 8 Comments
My most recent post Simple Example of Network Interface Virtualization generated enough interest and curosity to warrant a follow-up post showing simple uses cases for NIV. NIV takes a single physical adapter and presents multiple virtual adapters as if they were physical adapters to the server and network. Now that the server and network see [...]
A simple example of Network Interface Virtualization
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I’m seeing some confusion in the blogosphere about how Cisco’s implementation of Network Interface Virtualization (NIV) really works so perhaps a very simple example is needed, and that is the intent of this post. My previous posts about NIV with Cisco’s Palo adapter were focused on the big picture and the complete solution, such as [...]
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Cisco Unified Fabric TCO Calculator Tool This flash tool provides a TCO comparison of a Unified Fabric vs. Traditional network deployments. (tags: cisco tco calculator) Cisco IT Data Center Tour This site provides a very nice virtual tour of Cisco's Global Data Centers, including production data centers in Richardson TX & Northern California (tags: cisco [...]
Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V design diagram with Palo adapter
August 11, 2009 By 44 Comments
This is a follow-up and enhancement of a previous design diagram in which I showed Cisco UCS running the standard VMware vSwitch. In this post I am once again showing Cisco UCS utilizing the Cisco (Palo) virtualized adapter with an implementation of VMware vSphere 4.0, however in this design we are running ESXi and the [...]
Cisco UCS and VMWare vSwitch design with Cisco 10GE Virtual Adapter
July 5, 2009 By 29 Comments
This diagram is a sample design of Cisco UCS running vSphere 4.0 utilizing the VMWare vSwitch and Cisco’s virtualization mezzanine adapter. The Cisco adapter is a dual port 10GE Converged Network Adapter supporting Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Network Interface Virtualization (NIV). The Cisco adapter is “virtual” in the sense that this single physical [...]
Cisco UCS pricing response to Egenera
April 28, 2009 By 9 Comments
Egenera criticized Cisco’s math for UCS pricing in an article titled “A Closer Look at Cisco UCS pricing“. After reading the first few paragraphs of this article it became quite clear that Egenera needs a closer look at their own math. Let’s examine the flaws in the article… About the price of management software for [...]
This post came from Cisco UCS
April 7, 2009 By 1 Comment
Here I am in my Cisco UCS training class and I just booted up my first blade. Im writing this post from the Cisco Unified Computing System! Wow was this easy. Here is what I did: Logged in to the Cisco UCS Manager GUI. Created a “Service Profile” where I defined various configuration settings such [...]
Top of Rack vs End of Row Data Center Designs
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Nexus 1000V with FCoE CNA and VMWare ESX 4.0 deployment diagram
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