Bad request when accessing CIMC
While setting up a couple of Cisco UCS C210 M2 rackservers the other day (fine servers at a great value, thanks Cisco) one of them seemed to have a broken CIMC (Cisco Integrated Management Console,...
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Cisco announced new C260-M2 server
A couple of days ago Cisco announced among other products what looks like a nice server for virtualization: Cisco Unified Computing System C260 M2 rack-mount server (I know we will look more closely at...
View ArticleProving a point – building a SAN
A few weeks back I noticed that patching a bunch of virtual machines running Windows felt slower than it used to do. Not that patching Windows servers ever felt quick and there was a big list of...
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Proving a point – building a SAN (part 2)
So, lets make a little update on the last post as I have now put together (and ordered) a bunch of hardware in order to build a better SAN than my last experiment. This is what I ended up with: Cisco...
View ArticleProving a point – building a SAN (part 3.5)
Had a quick chat to the Cisco-specialist at our supplier (who confessed that he had very limited experience with the UCS hardware) and he told me that any SFF-8087 cable should (or could?) work. I...
View ArticleProving a point – building a SAN (part 4 – the neverending story?)
Finally after weeks and weeks of waiting all parts for my SAN project had arrived and I unpacked the last cables and installed them and they sure did work just fine. All 16 disks jumped online and...
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On using Cisco’s UCS servers as normal servers
"So you are using the whole Cisco UCS system ...and how?" I have gotten the above question in some different flavors quite a few times lately. And the answer is: no we do not, we use them as normal,...
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