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		<title>Cisco UCS Networking Best Practices (in HD)</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/06/22/cisco-ucs-networking-best-practices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The FOLLY in the HP vs Cisco UCS Tolly Group report on bandwidth</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/03/02/the-folly-in-hp-vs-ucs-tolly/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/03/02/the-folly-in-hp-vs-ucs-tolly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Folly: lack of good sense or normal prudence and foresight
Tolly Group: &#8220;Clients work with Tolly Group senior personnel to identify the chief marketing message desired&#8221;
HP: Client of Tolly Group with a desired marketing message of &#8220;Cisco UCS bandwidth sucks&#8221;, but in fact received an embarrassing Folly. (refund?)
By now you may have read or heard about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple use cases for Network Interface Virtualization</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/10/23/simple-use-cases-for-network-interface-virtualization/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/10/23/simple-use-cases-for-network-interface-virtualization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NIV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V design diagram with Palo adapter</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/08/11/cisco-ucs-nexus-1000v-design-palo-virtual-adapter/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/08/11/cisco-ucs-nexus-1000v-design-palo-virtual-adapter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cisco UCS and VMWare vSwitch design with Cisco 10GE Virtual Adapter</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/07/05/cisco-ucs-vmware-vswitch-design-cisco-10ge-virtual-adapter/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/07/05/cisco-ucs-vmware-vswitch-design-cisco-10ge-virtual-adapter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bradhedlund.com/?p=581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This diagram is a sample design of Cisco UCS running vSphere 4.0 utilizing the VMWare vSwitch and Cisco&#8217;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 &#8220;virtual&#8221; in the sense that this single physical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cisco UCS pricing response to Egenera</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/04/28/cisco-ucs-pricing-response-to-egenera/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/04/28/cisco-ucs-pricing-response-to-egenera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egenera criticized Cisco&#8217;s math for UCS pricing in an article titled &#8220;A Closer Look at Cisco UCS pricing&#8220;.
After reading the first few paragraphs of this article it became quite clear that Egenera needs a closer look at their own math.  Let&#8217;s examine the flaws in the article&#8230;
About the price of management software for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This post came from Cisco UCS</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/04/07/this-post-came-from-cisco-ucs/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/04/07/this-post-came-from-cisco-ucs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bradhedlund.com/?p=434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Service Profile&#8221; where I defined various configuration settings such as [...]]]></description>
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