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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 [...]

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?)
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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 multiple [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]