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  Programmatic Provisioning with Puppet Enterprise, Razor, and Cisco UCSCisco UCS and Puppet have put together solutions for rapid bare metal provisioning and infrastructure management.  Visit the main Puppet Modules for UCS page for more information...

Cisco UCS Platform Emulator, Release 3.0(1cPE1)The UCS Platform Emulator version 3.0(1cPE1) is a platform release that ONLY supports the 6324 Fabric Interconnect based domains.  No other Fabric Interconnect (6100 / 6200) will work with this UCSPE.New...

Starting May 31, 2016, New Account Breakaway-UCS can now also apply to Cisco UCS customers who have not purchased the solution in the previous 8 fiscal quarters (two years).  This offer gives partners a powerful profitability incentive to reactivate ...

[ Software links provided within have been tested for LiveCD and CentOS build environments CentOS 6.5 and CentOS 6.4] For those who have an existing Live CD build Environment, tools, and kickstart config file for LiveCD on an existing CentOS/RHEL.Go ...

The UCS Central Operations and Best Practice Guide helps administrators of single or multiple UCS management domains to aggregate and simplify management through UCS Central.This version has been updated for the UCS Central 1.4(1a) Release.This docum...

You can use a combination of a Linux Live image along with Cisco’s UCScfg to help facilitate server deployment. This gives users the opportunity to build custom images catered to their specific configuration needs. The image uses a live CentOS CD, an...

Check-out this presentation and demonstration on YouTube:https://youtu.be/u7f6U6F8cWU

Check-out this presentation and demonstration on YouTube:https://youtu.be/OgF5GejzJFM

Stephane.  Senior Virtualisation Consultant. CGI is one of the biggest IT management  Corp. in the world with over 75K employees  we so far have 160 blades running in 6 different domains and being manage by ucs central. They are mostly VMware hosts a...

Check-out this presentation and demonstration on YouTube:https://youtu.be/bQlBYUfAJeM

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One of the unappreciated features of the Cisco C-Series server is the ability to carve up the VIC into multiple virtual adapters.   This allows you to apply things like jumbo frames and COS to adapters on the same physical link.  It also makes dealin...

                                                                                                                                                       Cisco UCS Non Interactive Diagnostic ToolYou can use diagnostics tools to diagnose hardware problem...

Twice in one week, I had customers ask me "How can I quickly add lots of blocks to global pools without having to point-and-click forever through the GUI?""Easy!", I responded.  Because now we have a beta-version of UCS PowerTool for UCS Central, whi...