The Full Stack: Apps, AI, DevOps, Infrastructure
In a recent training event I went to this week, they stated that a FlexPod = Cisco UCS + Nexus + NetApp. If you don’t have those 3, then its not a FlexPod. However, if you have UCS + NetApp, then you still get the benefits of the back end support being tied together. This…
My first iOS app has been published on iTunes! It’s called UCS Tech Specs. The purpose of the app was really just to help me get more familiar with the Cisco UCS product line. I have a hard time searching for tech sheets on my computer that have all the details people ask me about…
One of the fun things I get to do is learn about Fiber Channel technologies. Today I’ve been configuring a UCS chassis with two Fabric Interconnects to two MDS 9148 SAN switches. I’ll go into it a bit more on another post, but after I was configuring it reading some great documentation, I didn’t understand…
I just submitted my first app to iTunes using Xcode4 and iTunes Connect. There was a bit of a learning curve, but after hacking away at it last night I’m happy to say its sitting in Apple’s queue waiting for review. First off, let me say that even though its a total pain there are…
UPDATE (Aug 3, 2011): VMware changed the licensing model addressing many of the disadvantages laid out in this post. Among them: the monster 1TB VM will not be super expensive and the Enterprise+ license went up to 96GB of vRAM. The new vSphere 5 licensing information has taken the VMware blogger world by storm. So…
We were installing a brand new Cisco UCS chassis with a customer and had to use 1GbE uplinks from each fabric extender. We started getting some strange ping issues where ping would work about 60-90% of the time. As we tried to figure it out, we checked each component and were pretty satisfied that our…
At the Gartner data center conference in December 2010 they reported that 38% of IT costs are personnel. Given that almost 40% of your cost in IT is personnel, it would make sense to invest in tools and equipment that make it so they can be as efficient as possible. I’d like to illustrate how…
I’ve left the startup world and gone back to the corporate world. Tomorrow is my first day at Cisco where I will be a Consulting Systems Engineer! My role will be customer facing and speaking with customers in the state, local government, and higher education sectors and showing them the benefits of the Cisco Unified…
I am super excited for VMworld 2011 and I’ve already got my tickets, hotel (at the Venetian!) and dates ready to roll! I was scrolling through the long list of sessions and found tons that seem really interesting to me. I submitted two sessions: #2815 “Secrets of ESXi Automated Installations” and #2642 “Pimp my ESXi…