Yeah I said it: “IDS just brought Sexy Back!” For a refresh a recent customer sought to finally step into the Virtual Limelight. This particular customer, whose vertical is in the medical industry; purchased four Cisco Chassis and eleven B200 blades. Alongside the Cisco server they purchased an EMC VNX 5500 OE Unified Array with two Cisco MDS 9148 FC switches. Our plan …
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Is nothing sacred? As the professionally paranoid, we know all too well that we cannot take anything for granted when deploying a new solution. However, one list that has long gone un-scrutinized by the typical IT professional is the published VMware Hardware Compatibility List. A fellow friend of mine in the IT space recently underwent the less than pleasant experience …
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Once upon a time, I had an issue where all of my guests/VM’s would suddenly fall of the network. I could not ping the guests from anywhere in the network, yet the guests never went down; because I was still able to console into them from vSphere. After spending hours on support calls with VMware I finally …
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Last week, VMware announced the upcoming release of vSphere 5. While the release contains many new exciting features, it has been clouded with noise about the new licensing. VMware has decided to move to vRAM licensing and is removing the previous maximums on the amount of RAM or the number of CPU cores (see the …
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Last week, the folks here at IDS and the knowledgeable experts at Cisco teamed up for a test drive of their latest rollout: the UCS Blade server. The feedback we received was overwhelming in response to both the capacities of the UCS, as well as the care and attention to detail that went into the development …
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