Tag Archives: Unified

EMCWorld 2013: Introducing new Cisco MDS stuff

Due to different nice things in Vegas combined with EMC Elect stuff, I am not able to attend as much as sessions that I had in my mind, but today I attended the session “Cisco/EMC Multiprotocol Fibre Channel SAN’s for … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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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