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The Management challenges, Eco-Consciousness and Escalating costs are driving the Technology providers to move from discrete solutions for Compute, Storage and networking to Unified Information Infrastructure. The Unified Information Infrastructure as a framework builds on Unified Compute, Unified Network, and Unified Storage. There is a need to incorporate the management and security services to complete the Data Center 3.0 requirements. The Advancements in network technologies and Standards (10 G Ethernet, FCoE, IPMI etc) are fuelling the Vision of a Unified Network. It is practical to unify the management traffic, inter-process (cluster)-communication- IPC, Storage area network (SAN) and Local area network-LAN traffic onto a single unified fabric. Some solutions are driving this to the realm of reality today. With the advent of in Blade server technology and Virtualization at the access network layer for these solutions, there is a clear shift toward Unifieds Compute. Unified Compu

Cloud adopters should consider the following key elements when implementing Cloud service delivery frameworks: Leverage existing infrastructure within the prospective Cloud providers. Use a graduated adoption from semi-automated to fully automated processes. Balance between customization and standardization while making an effort to have differentiated services. In order to help cloud adopters realize the value of this approach, It is better to walk the talk....A Cloud Lab can be created and evolved in the same manner as a Production Cloud deployment. As a Physical Manifestion of a cloud, there are three critical components Core Network and Shared Data Center Workload Execution Engines Resource Pool Management, Securty, SLA Analytics and Automation Infrastructure (on-going development/enhancement roadmap) A Practical Deployment plan for Core Data Center Network Services is as follows: Core Network Services such as CRS, Nexus 7k Cat 6k Services complex with Service blades for Firewall/L

It is nice go through the grind once again for this VCP certification... Now I am VSP, VTSP, VCP... Don't mean to be bragging here... :-) Quoting from Frost "Miles to go before I sleep"... Cisco UCS certification is on the horizon... Watch out...

We are installing UCS...It is probably the easiest blade system to bring it into the network In a UCS system - Upstream ---> UCS Manager/Fabric Interconnect ---> Fabric Extender in each Blade Chasis ---> Mez card on Server Blade Connect to the Interconnect through serial cable and configure Managment IP address by completing the setup steps... http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/cli/config/guide/b_CLI_Config_Guide.html We need to connect to Mgmt0 port - of the Fabric interconnect to Mgmgt net and access it throught the IP set to the Management port Once you are able to launch the gui... it is familiar territory http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/gui/config/guide/GUI_Config_Guide.pdf The Rest of the setup can be very specific to your special needs... The simplicity of UCS is refreshing...