Archive for the 'unified computing' Category

Jul 05 2009

Cisco UCS and VMWare vSwitch design with Cisco 10GE Virtual Adapter

Published byBrad Hedlund under Data Center, Design Diagrams, FCoE, Featured, unified computing, vmware

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 [...]

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Apr 28 2009

Cisco UCS pricing response to Egenera

Published byBrad Hedlund under Data Center, unified computing

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 a [...]

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Apr 07 2009

This post came from Cisco UCS

Published byBrad Hedlund under Data Center, unified computing

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 as [...]

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