Category Archives: CISCO

CISCO HyperFlex, are they late?

CISCO has announced HyperFlex The new CISCO HyperFlex solution will be added on to their current product offerings. In 2016 the hyper-converged industries will be around a $1.9 billion dollars industry. Nutanix is slated to be their main competition within this industry. The current traditional Integrated systems account for $7.2 billion dollars. CISCO has been getting… Read More »

Setup UCS for vSAN

Setup a UCS C240 for vSAN In this post I will show you how to use the UCS KVM console to setup the hard drives for use in an existing vSAN cluster. If you need to load ESX on a UCS server look at my previous UCS post here. Let’s get started. Open your CIMC console.… Read More »

CISCO UCS ESX install

Install ESX on CISCO UCS FlashFlex ** This article do not show you how to unpack and setup the CIMC IP address ** Log into the CIMC interface. Default Username: admin Default Password: password We need to make sure the flash disk has been formatted. Click on the Storage tab. Then the “Reset Partition Defaults”… Read More »

CISCO UCS iSCSI setup – Part 2

SCSI setup on CISCO UCS and vSphere – Part 2 Under the Configuration tab on an ESX server click the network button. Add a new VMkernel port Add both of the new NICs Create a name for the VMkernel port Add the IP address and subnet. Click Finish Create the second iSCSI VMKernel Click Add… Read More »

CISCO UCS iSCSI setup – Part 1

iSCSI setup on CISCO UCS and vSphere – Part 1 This is my first major task with a CISCO UCS. Now that I have a better understanding on how the UCS system is configured, I will be able to make better use of my time. ** Ensure that you are using a “User Ack” Maintenance… Read More »