Two years on the market and a 10% market share – UCS 1.0 has proven itself… welcome UCS 2.0. Last week at Cisco Live 2011 in Las Vegas, where “what happens in Vegas is shared online”, UCS 2.0 was announced (orderability scheduled for Q3 CY11) With UCS 1.0 we brought innovation to the x86 blade …
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May 29 2011
Bronze – and it feels like Gold
Less then two years ago Cisco announced it’s blade server solution, the Cisco Unified Computing System. At the end of Q1 CY11 it has been a mere 21 month since shipments started Time flies – countless customers meetings, finding new partners that are considered leaders in this for Cisco new market, training existing Cisco partners …
Apr 23 2011
Adding an extra UCS Chassis – the configuration minutes
There has been a lot of really positive feedback on the original “adding an extra UCS Chassis” video. In that video we demonstrated how long it took to unpack, rack, cable and power-up a new UCS chassis. I also talked about the time required to to complete the configuration and boot ESXi from the new …
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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