Comments on blog.aarondelp.com: Cisco UCS Information for "Server People"

Very helpful -- thanks for the overview. I'll ...

2010-02-10T15:39:19.402-05:00

Very helpful -- thanks for the overview. I'll be looking forward to the rest of your posts.

Hey Andrew - I'll put on my pre-sales hat for ...

2010-02-07T16:47:53.032-05:00

Hey Andrew - I'll put on my pre-sales hat for a second here. If you want to follow up, you know how to get hold of me!

What I really like about UCS right now is the management aspect of it. The software while complex looking at first looks to be very different. I will know more on that in the upcoming weeks as I dig into it.

Here's how I see the market right now.

As I don't work for a Cisco reseller (but do d...

2010-02-06T01:10:31.073-05:00

As I don't work for a Cisco reseller (but do do a lot with VMware+storage), I've been tracking UCS overall....thanks for the very detailed posts.

In reading them though, I'll admit I'm just seeing a whole ton of complexity that almost feels mind-boggling at times (I'll admit for the record I'm not hugely crazy about blades in general ;-).

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Hey Brad! Thank you for that. I've actually ...

2010-02-02T10:49:04.897-05:00

Hey Brad! Thank you for that. I've actually received two "official" Cisco answers about Palo vNICs. One was that answer (came from the BU), and I have received another technical one that is slightly different. I can share with you via e-mail if you would like. I don't want to post here in case it isn't correct.

Thanks again for the comment!

Aaron, The formula to calculate # of vNICS & v...

2010-02-02T10:45:47.654-05:00

Aaron,
The formula to calculate # of vNICS & vHBAs on the Palo adapter is as follows:

15 * (number of FEX uplinks) - 2

So with 4 uplinks per FEX you can have 58 Palo virtual adapters. Typically you would use 2 of those for vHBA's, so that would leave 56 vNICs available for VM's or hypervisor switches.

Cheers,
Brad