Monthly Archive: March 2011

Mar 06 2011

Adding an extra UCS Chassis

The architecture of the Cisco UCS blade system is fundamentally different from the others in the market place. There is no intelligence and no configuration build into the blade chassis itself. In fact, you won’t even find a management port on the chassis. Instead, the UCS architecture is build around centralizing the intelligence in a …

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Mar 06 2011

UCSM – Pools, Policies and Templates

The architecture of the Cisco UCS system is build around a ‘stateless’ system with an extremely flexible XLM API. You will need to learn to use this flexibility to reap all of the benefits UCS offers you. UCS Manager, the software that controls the entire UCS system, is build into the Fabric Interconnects and is …

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