May 29 2011
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
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
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 …
Mar 06 2011
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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