Bad request when accessing CIMC
While setting up a couple of Cisco UCS C210 M2 rackservers the other day (fine servers at a great value, thanks Cisco) one of them seemed to have a broken CIMC (Cisco Integrated Management Console,...
View ArticleInstalling Solaris via CIMC – nope, not possible
Well, actually it very much possible to install Sun Oracle Solaris via the CIMC on the C200/C210 servers as long as one does not rely on the 'Virtual Media' function to mount a iso-file to install...
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Proving a point – building a SAN (part 2)
So, lets make a little update on the last post as I have now put together (and ordered) a bunch of hardware in order to build a better SAN than my last experiment. This is what I ended up with: Cisco...
View ArticleProving a point – building a SAN (part 3)
Just a short update on the SAN building activities. All items finally arrived the other day in very much Cisco-style, around 30 boxes with each item packaged individually. After some assembly it became...
View ArticleProving a point – building a SAN (part 4 – the neverending story?)
Finally after weeks and weeks of waiting all parts for my SAN project had arrived and I unpacked the last cables and installed them and they sure did work just fine. All 16 disks jumped online and...
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On using Cisco’s UCS servers as normal servers
"So you are using the whole Cisco UCS system ...and how?" I have gotten the above question in some different flavors quite a few times lately. And the answer is: no we do not, we use them as normal,...
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