I get asked a lot why Cisco doesn’t have feature X, or support hardware Y in their UCS product line. A recent discussion with a coworker reminded me that lots of those questions are out there, so I might as well give my opinion on them. Disclaimer : I don’t work for Cisco, I don’t [...]
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Great UCS write-up by Joe Onisick
If you’re not currently following Joe’s blog over at definethecloud.wordpress.com, you should start. He just posted another great article on why UCS is his server platform of choice. Before you write him off as just another Cisco fan-boy, definitely take a look at his logic. Even if you have another vendor preference, he presents some [...]
READ MORE »Tolly Report
A lot of people have been asking me what I think of the recently released Tolly report comparing the bandwidth of the HP and Cisco blade solutions. The short answer is, I don’t think much of it. It’s technically sound, and the the conclusions it reaches are perfectly reasonable – for the conditions of [...]
READ MORE »What’s the difference between VN-Link and VN-Tag?
This is a question that constantly comes up in the classes and discussions that I’m involved in. Part of the problem is that Cisco’s own documentation tends towards the marketing and less towards the technology. Because of that, even a lot of Cisco folks are confused on exactly what is meant by each term. Hopefully, [...]
READ MORE »Good hands-on summary of UCS and comparisons with HP and IBM
Aaron Delp posted a great writeup on comparing UCS with HP and IBM solutions, specifically focusing on where the brains of each solution lives… Definitely want to watch the comments on this one!
READ MORE »A real deployment’s experience with adding hardware to UCS
One of the things we talk about in Cisco UCS is how easy is it is to expand the architecture. Each time you add a chassis in competing solutions, you have lots of management points to configure – the chassis itself, the Ethernet and potentially Fibre Channel switching/connectivity, etc. With UCS, it’s simply a matter [...]
READ MORE »Excellent discussion and comparison of UCS and HP blade offerings
Over at By the Bell, there’s a great post and commentary on differences between HP’s offerings and Cisco UCS. As many of the comments point out, the post itself is a bit biased towards UCS, but the comments are an excellent set of discussions about the various pros and cons of the solutions. As good [...]
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