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Monitoring Cisco UCS via System Center Operations Manager 2012
My college Stefan Roth (Private Cloud Architect at itnetx) wrote a blog series about how you can monitor you Cisco UCS with System Center Operations Manager 2012. He covers how you can setup the UCS Emulator for…
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Cisco UCS C200 M2 – Microsoft Hyper-V
For my Lab I could buy some Cisco UCS C200 M2 rack servers. Of course I am running Hyper-V on my lab servers to get the most out of it, and I am very happy with…
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Windows Server 2012 NIC Naming
Some weeks ago I wrote a blog post how you can configure Network Adapters on a Hyper-V host via PowerShell. I mentioned that the NICs in Windows Server 2008 R2 are always named differently. Now I…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Blackscreen after enabling Hyper-V Role on Cisco UCS
Today I had a strange problem on a Cisco UCS installation. After you enabled Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1, you will get a black screen. Cisco fixed this in the UCS Firmware…
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Cisco UCS C200 M2 – Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC)
The first things I tried with the new Cisco UCS C200 M2 servers was the CIMC (Cisco Integrated Management Controller). CIMC is the remote out-of-band management solution (IPMI) provided with Cisco servers, it’s basically the…
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Cisco UCS C200 M2 – Hardware
Today my two new virtualization nodes from Cisco arrived. For my Microsoft Hyper-V lab I needed two new nodes and I got a really good offering for two Cisco UCS C200 M2 High-Density Rack-Mount Servers. The…
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Building a new Hyper-V Private Cloud Lab
Two years ago I created my first real IT Lab with some HP ProLiant ML110 G5. I used this in the past years to test new products and projects. The Lab at this time was very…
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UCS Mythbusters
In this clip from episode 100,Jimmy Ray and guest Jeff Silberman address the myths being portrayed by Cisco’s competitors, and demonstrates why it just doesn’t hold water. A must-see segment for you competitive types! YouTube video…
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Cisco UCS Release 2.0
This monday Cisco released the the UCS Software 2.0, which brings a lot of bug fixes and important features. This major software release brings a new drivers, BIOS, software and firmware. New Hardware Features in…
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How Microsoft Hyper-V and the Cisco UCS changed our lives
At the end of last year we had our Cisco UCS ordered and in your datacenter. In January we started the testing and made the Clusters ready for the production environment. In February we started the…