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APAC Virtualisation Podcast (Cisco UCS) – Wed 3/3/10 @ 9pm SYD

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:22:00 +0000

This week we have a special guest – Steve Chamber from Cisco and owner of viewyonder.com - to present, talk and discuss the Cisco UCS platform and how it can leverage your virtualisation infrastructure and processes.

The broadcast is via TALKSHOE.com.

Additional facts or tips on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:04:00 +0000

Here are some additional interesting facts or tips to complete the excellent list already compiled by Rodney Haywood (@rodos).

Licence Numbers are specific to each physical system’s serial number.
Virtual Media Server only mount ISO/IMG files hosted locally in your workstation (no Map or FQDN).
KVM requires a valid block of IPs, even thou it’s for internal use only.
USC 6100’s cluster is Active/Passive and will not fallback automatically in case of a failure.
UCS 6100’s northbound connections to the network infrastructure are 10 GB only (1GB to be released).
SAN boot is only possible when using Menlo and Palo mezzanines cards.
B200 blades have single CNA adaptor. For redundancy B250 blades are required.
For cluster and console ETH connectors you will need cables without sleeves. See photo bellow.

There is no true Stateless Computing today

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:48:00 +0000

This week randomly I found out that one of the hottest topics of the IT industry at the moment “Stateless Computing” had no reference in Wikipedia. WTF, who is updating that wiki? So, for the first time I added the term to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_Computing

UCS (Unified Computing System) Key Concepts

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:48:01 +0000

UCS (Unified Computing System) is Cisco’s first entry into the x86 server market. This paper provides insight into both the Cisco Data Centre 3.0 strategy, and UCS, which is a key enabler to DC 3.0. It discusses products within the UCS range at a component level, such as blade and rack mount server offerings, and lastly highlights some of the larger benefits that can be gained through the pairing of x86 virtualisation and UCS technology.