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Cisco UCS 101: Windows Boot from SAN
I’ve had a number of customers ask me about the steps needed in order to setup Windows boot from SAN in a Cisco UCS environment. There are a number of resources out there already, but I wanted to go...
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Cisco UCS 101: Installation and Basic Config
Below you’ll find step-by-step instructions on setting up a Cisco UCS environment for the first time. I wanted to post this as a general guideline for those new to UCS who may be setting up their...
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VMware Resource Pools Once More
Over the past few years there has been no shortage of excellent blog posts detailing how to properly configure resource pools in a vSphere environment. Despite the abundance, quality and availability...
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Convergence and the Software-Defined Data Center
There’s been a lot of industry news lately regarding Software-Defined Storage, Software-Defined Data Centers and hyper-convergence . After numerous conversations with various colleagues and friends...
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PCoIP Proxy for Horizon View
A couple months ago F5 came out with a very intriguing announcement when they released full proxy support for PCoIP on the latest Access Policy Manager code version, 11.4. Traditional Horizon View...
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The Great Persistence Debate
There was a good discussion at VMworld this year between persistent and non-persistent VDI proponents. The debate spawned from discussions on twitter surrounding a blog post by Andre Leibovici...
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Double the Procedure, Double the Price?
In my last post I touched briefly on a claim I’m hearing a lot in IT circles these days. This claim is often heard in discussions surrounding multi-hypervisor environments and most recently in VDI...
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Cisco UCS 101: MAC, WWN and UUID Pool Naming Conventions
Continuing with the Cisco UCS 101 series, I thought I’d post on MAC, WWPN, WWNN and even UUID pool naming conventions. There’s a number of ways this can be done but as a general rule-of-thumb my pools...
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End of year Randomness
I’m not big on “end of year” posts or predictions and lacking any other ideas, thought I’d write down some random thoughts about technology going through my head as this year draws to an end. All Flash...
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Key features for VDI storage
One of the biggest trends in IT infrastructure today is dedicated “storage systems” for VDI. I put “storage systems” in scare quotes because many of the vendors making these systems would object to...
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