Excellent discussion and comparison of UCS and HP blade offerings
Over at By the Bell, there’s a great post and commentary on differences between HP’s offerings and Cisco UCS. As many of the comments point out, the post itself is a bit biased towards UCS, but the...
View ArticleA real deployment’s experience with adding hardware to UCS
One of the things we talk about in Cisco UCS is how easy is it is to expand the architecture. Each time you add a chassis in competing solutions, you have lots of management points to configure – the...
View ArticleGood hands-on summary of UCS and comparisons with HP and IBM
Aaron Delp posted a great writeup on comparing UCS with HP and IBM solutions, specifically focusing on where the brains of each solution lives… Definitely want to watch the comments on this one!
View ArticleWhat’s the difference between VN-Link and VN-Tag?
This is a question that constantly comes up in the classes and discussions that I’m involved in. Part of the problem is that Cisco’s own documentation tends towards the marketing and less towards the...
View ArticleTolly Report
A lot of people have been asking me what I think of the recently released Tolly report comparing the bandwidth of the HP and Cisco blade solutions. The short answer is, I don’t think much of it. It’s...
View ArticleGreat UCS write-up by Joe Onisick
If you’re not currently following Joe’s blog over at definethecloud.wordpress.com, you should start. He just posted another great article on why UCS is his server platform of choice. Before you write...
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Why doesn’t Cisco…?
I get asked a lot why Cisco doesn’t have feature X, or support hardware Y in their UCS product line. A recent discussion with a coworker reminded me that lots of those questions are out there, so I...
View ArticleBrocade’s Flawed FCoE “Study”
Disclosures I do not work for Cisco, Brocade, or any of the companies mentioned here. I do work for a reseller that sells some of these products, but this post (as are all posts on this site) is my...
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