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Flex10 with vSphere
I’ve been actively engaged with a health care client assisting them with a design for over 100 HP blades, in a C-7000 chassis with Flex10 and vSphere. Having not found a whole lot of information out...
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XenDesktop on VMware Infrastructure: Tips and Tricks
After running across issues with these types of deployments and not finding any helpful information on the web, I thought it would be good to stick some of it in a blog post. Hopefully this will help...
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Data Center Summit
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...
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UCS WWN and MAC Pools
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...
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Stateless Desktops?
Sitting here in the VMworld keynote, I’m finally allowed to discuss a pet project our team has been working on for VMware around stateless desktops with View 4.5. The Reference Architecture brief is...
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My VCDX Journey
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...
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Nexus 1000v Install via GUI
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!)....
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Configuring Pass-Through Switching (PTS) within UCS using the Virtual...
PTS is a Cisco UCS feature that allows management of the virtual network and configuration of virtual ports to be handled within UCS manager. This feature does not require a license and is available at...
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Cisco UCS PTS vs 1000v
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,...
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Configuring iSCSI Boot on a FlexPod
I was recently at a customers site at was doing an implementation of a Flexpod. The client wanted to do iSCSI booting of their ESXi 5.0 servers, as there was no local storage, nor was the environment...
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