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Cisco UCS
28 articles
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Cisco UCS supports Consistent Device Naming (CDN)
Yesterday I posted about Cisco UCS supporting RDMA (SMB Direct) with firmware version 2.2(4b)B. Walter Dey, former Cisco Distinguished Engineer at Cisco informed me not only about the RDMA feature he also showed me that Cisco…
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Cisco UCS supports RoCE for Microsoft SMB Direct
As you may know we use SMB as the storage protocol for several Hyper-V deployments using Scale-Out File Server and Storage Spaces which adds a lot value to your Hyper-V deployments. To boost performance Microsoft is…
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Cisco UCS and Hyper-V Enable Stateless Offloads with NVGRE
As I already mentioned I did several Hyper-V and Microsoft Windows Server projects with Cisco UCS. With Cisco UCS you can now configure stateless offloads for NVGRE traffic which is needed for Hyper-V Network Virtualization. Cisco…
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Hardware, Hosting, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell, System Center, Virtualization, Windows ServerCisco and Microsoft Announce Sales and Go-to-Market Agreement
At the Worldwide Partner Conference 2014 Cisco and Microsoft announced a multi-year sales and go-to-market agreement designed to modernize data centers through the delivery and acceleration of integrated solutions. This will focus on bringing a deeper integration between the datacenter technologies…
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Cisco Champion 2014
I feel honored to be awarded by Cisco with the Cisco Champion title. Cisco does a lot of great products and I focused on the datacenter solutions which Cisco offers with their Cisco UCS platform and…
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Hardware, Hosting, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, PowerShell, System Center, Virtualization, Windows ServerCisco UCS PowerShell Scripting Contest
In the Microsoft world PowerShell is the tool to automate everything especially in your datacenter. I already mentioned that Cisco offers some great enhancements for the Microsoft Datacenter stack. If you are using a Cisco UCS…
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Manage your Cisco UCS with Windows PowerShell
Cisco does a really great job on supporting different management software for their blade center. For example Cisco offers a System Center Virtual Machine Manager Add-in to manage your Cisco fabric directly from the SCVMM console,…
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Automate your Cisco UCS with System Center Orchestrator
Some days ago I posted an article how you can manage your Cisco UCS Blade Center directly from System Center Virtual machine Manager. Cisco also offers an Integration Pack for System Center Orchestrator which allows you…
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Manage Cisco UCS via UCS Manager Add-in in System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Maybe you already know about the Cisco UCS Blade Center about I already blogged a lot especially about Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center integration. Today I had the change to integrate the Cisco UCS in many…
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Add Cisco UCS drivers to Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V ISO Image
I already did a post how you can add the Cisco UCS drivers to a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Image using dism and imagex. With Windows Server 2012 you cannot use the command line tool…
