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UCS: Rainbows, 6500s, and the Soul of a Server

Posted on May 8, 2012November 19, 2014 by Vallard

My day job is to be an advocate for Cisco UCS in my customer’s data center. Its a great gig. Its much easier to back a product when you actually believe in it. I thought I’d write down some of the ideas that I talk about with my customers on this blog. Rainbows In the…

UCS: The Soul of a Server

Posted on September 9, 2011November 19, 2014 by Vallard

One of the messages I’ve been putting to people in my UCS messaging lately is the concept of the soul of a server. The soul of the server in a nutshell is its configuration, its policies, its associated hardware identifiers, its boot parameters etc. Imagine the concept of a server you formerly loved. When…