One of the biggest barriers to cloud adoption has always been complexity on a number of fronts. IT administrators are worried about new processes and technologies. IT directors are worried about losing control of their infrastructure. Executives are worried about hidden costs, and the overall bottom line. VMware Cloud Foundation is the answer to all …
Welcome to another installment of the Cisco UCS Deep Dive series. Today we are going to take a look at the Cisco UCS 4200 series chassis, and the Cisco UCS C125 M5 modular server. This is a very unique and powerful Cisco UCS offering that many have not encountered. Think of it as a hybrid …
When it comes to virtual environment, VMware vSphere networking can be one of the most critical components. After all, how can your ESXi hosts and virtual machines communicate? Since the virtual network is key to how everything else operates, we need to have a good understanding of ESXi networking works. We are going to take …
When it comes to designing your Cisco UCS environment, one of the most important decisions you will make is how to connect your servers to the network. The good news is Cisco makes this an extremely easy decision with their powerful VIC cards which come in multiple form factors and speeds. Let’s take a closer …
Believe it or not, before I even knew what VMware was, I was working with Cisco products. I went through the CCNA networking academy years and years ago at a local community college while I was in high school. In fact, I had myself pegged for a network person for many years. Back then, the …
When it comes to VMware virtualization technologies, some of the hallmarks are the amazing features VMware has provided for virtual machines. Things like VMware HA (High Availability) which restart virtual machines on surviving ESXi hosts in the vSphere cluster after a host hardware failure. Another popular feature is VMware DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) which …