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).
Continue reading Cisco UCS Configuration Guide for vSphere – Part 6 – Admin
This is part 3 of the vCD Installation guide, describing the installation of the vCloud Director Database: SQL Server 2012 running on Windows Server 2012.
Continue reading vCD Installation Guide – Part 3 – SQL Server 2012
This is part 5 of the Cisco UCS Configuration Guide, covering the creation of Cisco UCS Server policies.
Continue reading Cisco UCS Configuration Guide for vSphere – Part 5 – Server
This is part 2 of the vCD Installation guide, describing the installation of the vCloud Networking and Security Manager.
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:
Continue reading vCD Installation Guide – Part 1 – Preparation
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.
I am currently testing my EMC XtremIO PoC system with EMC. One of the great benefits of XtremIO is the Deduplication feature, which at a minimum will be 10:1, so the experts tell me and will be even better in version 3.0. My current Symmetrix VMAX configurations are 250TB and 350TB of tiered SSD, 15KFC and SATA storage for 2 sites. So assuming a 10:1 dedupe ratio, could I replace my two Symmetrix VMAX solutions with two XtremIO systems of 2 X-bricks (with 20TB model)? It almost seems too good to be true! From a price perspective, the XtremIO cost would be slightly cheaper than the VMAX (after the highly combative process of vendor bashing, sorry – negotiation, in my region) and from a space perspective 1/3rd the size (with SAN Fabric). No need to state the obvious about performance.
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