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Hyper-Converged Solutions
For the past few years, the big boys (HP, Cisco, Dell) have been trying to convince us that converged infrastructure is the way to go. Buy the stack of compute, storage, and network from us and off you go. One throat to choke, the best experience because all the components are engineered to work optimally […]
Tags: cisco, Dell, hyper, hyper converged, nutanex, pivot3, scale computing, simplivity, solution support
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Automating the Cisco UCS build using Cisco PowerTool
After installing Cisco UCS and performing the initial setup of the UCS Fabric Interconnects; there is a lot of work that needs to be completed prior to configuring the blade Service Profiles. This can be done a multitude of ways, manually through UCSM, scripted through SSH or now through PowerShell using Cisco PowerTool. This allows […]
Tags: additional user, cisco, Cisco UCS, cloud, initial setup, multitude, PowerCLI, PowerShell, powertool, variables
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Assigning VSAN’s to Cisco UCS VSAN Uplinks using Cisco PowerTool
When building out your UCS deployment, you create a series of Fibre Channel (FC) uplinks. Then you have to go back and add those FC uplinks to the VSAN’s that you created. This can be tedious if you have a lot of FC uplinks as you would need to modify each one. With Cisco’s Powertool, […]
Tags: cisco, Cisco UCS, cloud, deployment, help files, linux, PowerShell, powertool
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Creating UCS QOS Policies using Cisco PowerTool
Creating QOS policies within UCS Manager can be somewhat cumbersome. In UCS Manager, on the Lan tab; you would right-click UCS policies and click create… one by one you would go through this process to define you UCS policies, if you have a lot of policies or a lot of UCS builds to do this […]
Tags: cisco, Cisco PowerTool, Cisco UCS, gold, platinum, PowerShell, powertool, qos policies, UCS, UCS Manager
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