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This is a presentation I developed covering networking best practices for Cisco UCS, and now have recorded in High Definition for your viewing pleasure! Sweet!
This presentation assumes familiarity with basic networking and server VNIC concepts in UCS, and familiarity with virtual port channels.
This version of the presentation (v2.5) focuses primarily on the Ethernet [...]

I thought it would be fun to pilot a series of posts where I pick out interesting search engine queries that were used to find my blog.  Often times these are good questions that deserve a good answer, or other interesting topics that can start a good discussion or fun debate.
This particular series will focus [...]

As data centers become increasingly dynamic and dense with virtualization – how the classic Ethernet switching design adopts to these new models and scales becomes an important and challenging question. Virtualization and cloud based services says that any workload can exist anywhere, at anytime, on demand, and move to any location without disruption. This is [...]

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Folly: lack of good sense or normal prudence and foresight
Tolly Group: “Clients work with Tolly Group senior personnel to identify the chief marketing message desired”
HP: Client of Tolly Group with a desired marketing message of “Cisco UCS bandwidth sucks”, but in fact received an embarrassing Folly. (refund?)
By now you may have read or heard about [...]

Server virtualization has gained tremendous popularity and acceptance to a point now that customers are staring to host virtual machines from differing security zones on the same physical Host machine.  Physical servers that were self contained in their own DMZ network environment are now being migrated to a virtual machine resting on a single physical [...]