Category Archive: Management

Jan 02 2013

Adding a UCS Rack Server

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“When are you going to create a new video?” That is a question I quite regularly receive from people that use the original “Adding a new UCS chassis” video. For a while now the idea was to show how you could add a UCS C-series (rack server) to a running UCS system. The challenge had …

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Dec 06 2012

What Would You Build

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What Would You Build – if you had the power to program the network. In my presentations around Cisco ONE (Open Network Environment) and then specifically the onePK Platform API section, I challenge people to think about what they would want to build if they could use an API to program their routers and switches. …

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Nov 04 2012

UCS Central preview – A larger scale view

When UCS was launched in June 2009, it raised the bar with the integrated management called UCS Manager. A single build-in management interface to configure every single aspect of the UCS system as well as providing an open XML interface. Before we move forward, we need to get a few definitions straight: UCS Domain: A …

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