A pretty consistent conversation I’m having with clients is the use of vPCs and the client wanting to understand how failures are handled within the environment. Since I’m a visual type learner, I put together a few things outlining vPC traffic flow for both normal operations as well as when …
So what better time to announce a new beginning with a new site. If you haven’t already noticed, I’ve transitioned things over to a brand new site and domain name. Infinient! It’s the creation a good friend of mine and I created a couple years ago based off an idea …
If you’re in the IT industry you’ve more than likely attended some of the numerous vendor conferences such as VMworld, Cisco Live, etc. One common theme amongst these events, besides the great learning opportunity, seems to be backpacks being given out to all the attendees. While they are a great …
I’ve had a couple great conversations the last projects I’ve been involved in where I’ve been asked, “Do you recommend PTS with Cisco UCS or the 1000v?” This is a great question because in a sense, they both do the same thing. In this post I hope to cover the …
Deploying Cisco’s Nexus 1000v has gotten easier and easier as software updates have been released for it. I remember when the 1000v first came out and the difficulties people had (including myself!). One thing for sure is Cisco listens to their customers and partners, and works hard to correct pains …
I’ve been tracking the VCDX for over a year now. I am scheduled to defend my design at Partner Exchange 2011. This will be my second attempt at the defense as my first attempt was at VMworld 2010 and I obviously did not pass. I have not talked much about …
I haven’t seen a lot of details surrounding the Host Firmware Packages within UCS and wanted to go through their use and setup. First some background… The UCS itself from a firmware management perspective is quite possibly the simplest set of hardware devices to update that I’ve utilized to date. …
This past week I was deploying Windows 2003 Server 64bit onto a few blades within a Cisco UCS chassis and ran into a couple minor driver issues. The main item I want to focus on with this post is that the required drivers to detect the local disk controllers within …
This past week, I’ve been working deploying a vBlock1. In case you weren’t aware, the vBlock solutions are basically reference architecture’s consisting of EMC storage, Cisco UCS blade servers, and VMware. They come in three different flavors (vBlock0, vBlock1, and vBlock2) each with different models of SAN’s and quantity of …
I recently spent two days in San Jose at Cisco’s Data Center Summit. Filled with lots of Cloud discussions, the point of the conference was to receive feedback from select partners around the US on future product roadmaps and where we saw technologies going from a data center perspective. One …
doh...dmesg fail - posted on 16/05/2012 12:22:15@LisaJClifford I would argue that point...It's definitely not always a good thing 
You never know! - posted on 16/05/2012 11:58:24RT @jdooley_clt: @ChrisFendya Even better are the ones that start "I know you from Twitter..." O-o <++++1 - posted on 16/05/2012 09:13:32Can't decide how I feel about conversations that start with "Your name was mentioned..." - posted on 16/05/2012 09:12:11@angryjesters You going? - posted on 16/05/2012 09:00:57