Month: September 2014

Cisco UCS Configuration Guide for vSphere – Part 6 – Admin

This is part 6 of the Cisco UCS Configuration Guide, covering the advanced management features of the Cisco UCS (AD integration, DNS, Cisco Call Home, UCS Central integration, Time Zone, NTP & Port Licencing).

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vCD Installation Guide – Part 1 – Preparation

As part of my push to prepare for the VCAP-CID/CIA exams, I have been spending a lot of time with vCloud Director 5.1 in my lab.  I know it is not vCAC with NSX, but if you want to pass the VCAPs for Cloud, you will have to work with this configuration.

This is the first post of a five part series describing the steps to install and configure the various components of vCloud Director 5.1:

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VSAN Quick-Config Guide

Five months ago I built my home lab with VSAN and performance tested it (with the default policy).  It turns out I was missing a key part of the configuration: the “Service Provider URLs”.  Here is the complete VMware Virtual SAN configuration process for a home lab.

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