Are you a Cisco UCS user? Do you want to be a Cisco UCS user? Either way, the Cisco UCS Platform Emulator, also known as the Cisco UCS Emulator, is the tool you need to have in your arsenal. It allows users to get experience with and manipulate Cisco UCS Manager configurations without every making …
When it comes time to upgrade a VMware Product, your first stop should be the VMware Compatibility Guide (also known as the VMware Compatibility Matrix). Why, you ask? A VMware environment contains a number of components beyond VMware vSphere, and it is important to make sure all these components work together in your environment. The …
If you have worked with virtual machines, then you are familiar with the VMware icon that lives in your system tray. That little icon represents something called VMware tools. VMware tools can be downloaded from VMware’s website, or they may already reside on your VMware vSphere ESXi host, depending on which ISO you used to …
Anyone who has ever been an administrator or operator of an IT environment can agree, it is no fun digging through logs in the middle of an issue. Even though vSphere 6.5 has a great, searchable log browser for ESXi hosts, when something is going wrong we all want to be able to quickly and …
As you can tell by my twitter handle of vMiss33, 33 is my favorite number, and once I turned 33 I wanted to mark it with something special. Coincidentally, this is also my 200th blog post here on vMiss.net. I have gone back and forth on what to make this post, but since it …
While I have spent quite a bit of time with the Cisco Unified Computing System, or Cisco UCS, one product I have not taken a good look at is the Cisco UCS S-Series server, the UCS S3260, until now. Depending how you configure the S3260 M5, you can have up to 720 TB of storage …