Pete, thank you for overview! regards, martin
2011/7/22 Pete Templin <[email protected]>: > On 7/21/2011 4:25 PM, Martin T wrote: >> >> Chris, >> I have no hands-on experience with those servers, but as much as I >> have read, they seem to be solid x86 servers. In addition, this "Cisco >> Unified Computing System Extended Memory Technology" seems to be a >> nice feature. >> >> >> Pete, >> except the "Cisco Unified Computing System Extended Memory >> Technology"(at least I haven't seen such feature on other provider >> servers), do they have any additional unique features or differences >> compared to Dell, IBM or HP servers? >> > The system management is extremely impressive. Note that the blade > enclosures MUST be networked through the UCS Fabric Interconnect; the FI is > much like a Nexus 5010/5020 but with different code and extra ICs which > provide the UCS management engine. One FI (or one FI redundant pair) can > control multiple UCS blade enclosures (which can each have multiple servers > in them), and it's all centrally managed. I believe there's a noticeable > learning curve at first, but our server peeps seem to REALLY like it and can > turn up new service instances very easily. I also find the network > redundancy to be very well developed; I believe it's such that the servers > don't know there's a redundant network connected to them (no added > complexity of LAG per server). > > pt > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
