Tag: Cisco UCS

Cisco UCS now supports Nutanix

Today Nutanix and Cisco have announced their support of the Nutanix Acropolis software solution on the Cisco UCS platform (C-series only).  This is not an OEM deal, but a “Meet in the Channel” deal, where the partner is responsible for building and configuring the platform at the customer site.

The sorry story of Cisco’s foray into the storage market is pretty woeful with Whiptail and Springpath.  It is good to see them making a great storage decision for once.  Albeit, Nutanix is more than Software-Defined Storage now with their Enterprise Cloud vision.

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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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Cisco UCS Configuration Guide for vSphere – Part 7 – Firmware Upgrade

This post describes the procedure for the end-to-end upgrade of the firmware for a Cisco UCS Blade System.  At the time of writing, the UCS is delivered from the factory with version 2.2(1b) and the latest stable release is 2.2(1d).

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