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

Technical reviews and articles from a CCIE with extensive experience in designing and implementing converged enterprise networks.

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Entries Tagged as 'UCS'

Where was Colin in 2010?

January 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments · CISCO, EMC, NetApp

Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t written to much in 2010. It wasn’t because I was ignoring you, I had some really good reasons. Reason #1  – Super secret projects I have been doing detailed design work for a couple REALLY LARGE data centers clients (the type that dominate top 10 lists) [...]

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Tags: certification·CISCO·Data Center·DESIGN·EMC·flexpod·NDA·NetApp·Server·UCS·VBlock

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

Cisco EMC and VMware partneship VCE VBlocks Acadia and the Partner Ecosystem

November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, EMC, VBlock

Cisco EMC and VMware announced a joint partnership called the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition (VCE) . The key goal of the VCE is to accelerate customer migration to virtualization and cloud infrastructures. The Virtual Computing Environment will accomplish this in four different ways. VBlock Infrastructure Packages VBlock infrastructure packages are pre-configured bundles that are sized [...]

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Tags: CISCO·EMC·mds·Nexus·nexus 1000v·service provider·storage·UCS·virtualization