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Cloudstats.me – The Next-Gen Server Monitoring Platform
Cloudstats.me is the Next-Gen server/website monitoring platform which suits for Linux, windows servers and enterprise websites. I have been worked with several enterprise monitoring tools but...
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How to Measure the bandwidth between Linux / Solaris hosts ?
All the new servers are shipping with 10 Gbps built-in network adapters . At the same time, servers are virtualized and one physical server may hosts many virtual servers. For an example, VMware ESXi...
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Cisco UCS B-Series – UCS Manager Overview – Part 5
The computer industry is on the major transition due to the server consolidation and virtualization products on the market. Cisco is commonly known for networking components like switches, routers and...
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Setup the Cisco UCS environment and configure the UCS ?
This article will provide the step by step instructions to setup the Cisco UCS environment for first time. Cisco UCS is highly customizable and the configuration will be differ for each environment....
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How to discover the chassis using Cisco UCS Manager ?
Once you have done the Cabling and Fabric Interconnect’s cluster configuration, the next step would be to configuring the polices and configure ports to perform the chassis discovery. In this...
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Cisco UCS – Configuring the LAN uplinks and Port Channels
To provide to the external network connectivity to UCS environment,it needs to be connected to the external LAN switches. Fabric interconnect is highly customizable and you have to decide the each port...
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Cisco UCS – Configuring the FC uplinks and port channel
To provide the external SAN access to the UCS environment, it needs to be connected to FC SAN switches or the Storage box which supports the FCoE. Traditional infrastructure will be still using the FC...
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Configuring the Fabric interconnect ports – FC vs Ethernet
In Cisco 6100 series Fabric interconnect , the fixed module ports can be used only for server ports and Ethernet uplinks ports. In other-words , Ports are not unified in this series. But we can add...
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How to Configure KVM IP Pool in Cisco UCS Manager ?
The KVM console is a video over IP representation of the blade server. This facility is required to build and manage the servers from remotely. In an order to access each blades remotely , a pool of...
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UCS Manager – Create Sub-Organization – Server Pools – UUID Suffix
Cisoc UCS’s Multi-tenancy method allows you to divide up the large physical infrastructure of an instance into logical entities known as organizations.So that you can isolate between the organizations...
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Cisco UCS manager – How to Create the MAC POOL ?
Cisco UCS blades are not encoded with MAC address. So we need to create the MAC addresses, that are unique in their Layer 2 environment and are available to be assigned to vNICs on a server. To assign...
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Cisco UCS – How to Configure WWN Pools ?
In Cisco UCS domain , we need to create WWNN (World wide Node names) and WWPN (World Wide Port Names) manually to use the Fibre Channel vHBAs . World Wide Node Name is assigned to the blades and...
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Cisco UCS – Network Control policy and vLAN’s – vSAN’s
Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is used to obtain protocol addresses of neighbouring devices and discover the platform of those devices. This protocol runs on all the Cisco manufactured devices like...
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Cisco UCS – Creating vNIC & vHBA Templates
We need to define that how the vNIC will be get connected to the LAN. UCS manager will not create a VM-FEX port profile with the right settings automatically when you create a vNIC template. System...
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Cisco UCS – How to Create Boot & BIOS Policies ?
In Cisco UCS B-Series servers , you can configure multiple BIOS polices for same blade. But in the real world , we are not going to use the multiple BIOS policy for same blade. If you didn’t configure...
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How to Create Service Profile Template on Cisco UCS ?
Service profile concept has been extracted from virtual machine and applying it for physical servers in UCS. When you configure VM , you need to specify LAN and SAN access, I/O configurations, firmware...
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Create and associate service profile to UCS Blade
“Create and associate service profile to UCS blade” task is quite lengthy and time consuming work. That’s the reason why we have option for service profile templates . In the last article, we have seen...
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Cisco UCS – How to download Tech Support Files
You can easily download Tech support files from Cisco UCS manager . This file is required when you have open a case with Cisco for any issue. There are several different types of tech-support files...
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How to Configure Call Home Facility in Cisco UCS Manager ?
Cisco UCS manager provides facility to send email-based notification for critical system policies. There are multiple formats available which are compatible with pager services or XML-based automated...
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Cisco UCS – Configuring NTP and Configuration Backup
NTP configuration is essential for any operating systems to display the accurate time. Cisco UCS also requires instance-specific time zone setting and an NTP server to ensure the correct time display...
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