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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
UCS Mythbusters
In this clip from episode 100,Jimmy Ray and guest Jeff Silberman address the myths being portrayed by Cisco’s competitors, and...
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...
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...