Storage – Vallard's Blog

Kubernetes OnPrem Storage

Posted on September 26, 2018October 10, 2018 by Vallard

Lately I came across a few bare metal servers in our lab and decided I would test some of my ideas on setting up a bare metal kubernetes cluster on these nodes. I started thinking that if I were to do so I would need some persistent storage. There were a few options I could…

FCoE with UCS C-Series

Posted on January 14, 2014November 19, 2014 by Vallard

I have in my lab a C210 that I want to turn into an FCoE target storage. I’ll write more on that in another post. The first challenge was to get it up with FCoE. Its attached to a pair of Nexus 5548s. I installed RedHat Linux 6.5 on the C210 and booted up. The…

Storage: The new sexy

Posted on September 18, 2012November 19, 2014 by Vallard

I was fortunate enough to attend VMworld 2012 in San Francisco this year! It is indeed a great privilege and I can’t thank Cisco enough for sending me. There were lots of announcements that were pretty cool from a UCS standpoint like UCS Central and the vCenter plugin. (These were demoed in the Cisco booth) There were…