Colin McNamara – CCIE 18233 , VCP, EMCIE, NCDA, GEEK

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Entries Tagged as 'vmware'

Thank you for voting (VMworld Presentation)

May 20th, 2011 · No Comments · vmware

So many people linked, tweeted and posted on Facebook about my VMworld presentation submition #3221 Built to Fail. I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for spreading the word. I should find out on June 1st whether I am presenting. Again, thanks to everyone for all of your support.

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Fixing UCS Config Failures due to local disk config requirements

July 30th, 2010 · No Comments · CISCO, Cisco UCS, Cisco Unified Computing System, ESXi, vmware

Boring title huh? Well, this isn’t what I wanted to be dealing with on a Friday afternoon either. My plan was to set up a PXE boot environment to create scripted installations of ESXi 4.1 on UCS. However when I shelled into the UCS lab at work, I was made aware of a little bug. [...]

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Tags: application cycle·boring title·disk configuration·error message·firmware·little bug·physical server·profile section·pxe boot·service profile·UCS·ucsm

Arista Networks – Their approach to cloud networking

September 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Arista Networks, nexus 1000v, vmware

Intellectual capital driving the cloud It is wise to follow the movements of thought leaders in Silicon Valley. Why is that? Because when enough smart people land at the same company, it is only a matter of time something great happens. This “human network” of intellectual capital has been the seed of many successful tech [...]

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Tags: Arista Networks·CISCO·nexus 1000v·vmware