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Cisco UCS with VNX and vSphere: Booting from SAN
Last week we were installing a new vSphere 5 environment on a Cisco UCS platform with the EMC VNX5300 storage platform for a customer and decided to use the really cool new feature called “Auto Deploy” which makes it possible to use stateless … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco UCS, EMC VNX, SAN, Storage, vSphere 5
Tagged 0, 1, 4, 4.1, 5, add, ALUA, auto, boot, Cisco, clariion, Computing, connectivity, Datastore, deploy, disk.enablenavireg, EMC, end, environment, ESX, esx5, ESXi, esxi5, Fabric, fabrics, from, front, HBA, host, initiator, navisphere, policy, Port, primary, Profile, profiles, pxe, SAN, secondary, Service, single, Stateless, status, Storage, target, UCS, Unified, unisphere, vcenter, vHBA, VMFS, vNIC, VNX, vnx5300, vSphere, WWN, wwpn, zone, zoning
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Cisco UCS Powershell Toolkit: Adding bulk VLAN
When connecting the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects to your existing LAN Infrastructure, you need to add the VLAN’s manually due to the fact that UCS does not support VTP (VLAN Trunk Protocol). Inside this blogpost I will specify two basic … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco UCS, Powershell
Tagged add-ucsvlan, array, Cisco, comma, Computing, connect-ucs, csv, dimensional, editor, emulator, Fabric, FI, get-credential, id, id's, import-csv, instance, Interconnect, invoke-ucsxml, LAN, library, module, multi, name, native, powergui, powershell, protocol, script, seperated, simulator, System, template, toolkit, trunk, two, UCS, ucslancloud, Unified, vlan, vlan's, vNIC, vtp
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Cisco UCS Uplink Features
When connecting your Cisco UCS blade environment to your existing LAN, the traffic from your blades to the rest of your network, use a predefined path. This means that there is no real load balancing or round robin mechnism from your … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco UCS
Tagged 2, 3, balance, balancing, Blade, blades, border, Cisco, domain, ehv, end-host, enhanced, eth-uplink, even, Extender, external, Fabric, Group, groups, Interconnect, internal, l2, l3, LAN, layer, load, loop, loops, mode, npv, odd, pan, path, pinning, Port, portfast, robin, round, routing, SAN, scope, set, size, slot, spanning, spanning-tree, stp, Switch, switching, telnet, traffic, tree, UCS, uplink, virtualization, virtualizer, vnlink
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Cisco UCS and the vSphere awareness
In my previous post I outlined the ideal combination between EMC’s VNX storage platform and vSphere 5, without even address the real vSphere VNX awareness using the Virtual Storage Integrator. To complete the VCE circle, I want to focus this … Continue reading
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Tagged Blade, Bladecenter, C7000, Cisco, Computing, CPU, Datacenter, Dimm, Distributed, EMC, enclosure, ESX, Extender, Fabric, FC, FCoE, FLOGI, Group, HBA, HP, Interconnect, IP, LAN, Link, MAC, Machine, Memory, Mezzanine, NIC, npiv, npv, Port, Profile, Rack, RAM, SAN, Series, Server, Service, Socket, Stateless, Switch, System, UCS, Unified, Unit, VCE, vHBA, VIC, Virtual, VM, vMotion, VMware, VN, VN-link, vNIC, VNX, vSphere, vSwitch, WWN
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