tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008964430195994324.post3041874298473890349..comments2024-03-11T13:27:26.632-07:00Comments on Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade EnvironmentsKen Oestreichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13530514227192850735noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008964430195994324.post-55192705737859493392013-10-22T00:00:44.488-07:002013-10-22T00:00:44.488-07:00Quite interesting post it is. Specially hp blade p...Quite interesting post it is. Specially hp blade products are well known in the market and its configuration is also perfect.<br /> <a href="http://www.eoptionsonline.com/c-17-servers.aspx" rel="nofollow">Hp proliant Servers</a> EoptionsOnlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03337436059400575441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5008964430195994324.post-11663730935261061032010-07-09T13:40:54.951-07:002010-07-09T13:40:54.951-07:00Ken,
Nice post, but I have to take a bit of issue...Ken,<br /><br />Nice post, but I have to take a bit of issue with your comments on UCS. Almost everything UCS does is with UCSM. While Cisco does rely on third parties such as BMC for full automation and orchestration, but customers can to it themselves with the XML apis. The UCSM interface is all in XML so a right mouse click gets the XML syntax.<br /><br />And as far as simplicity goes, this is an excerpt from an email that I received from a customer just a few days ago:<br /><br />"Initial build - In our case the time it took to un-box the solution, rack, cable, bring online, and install VMware was about six hours with two guys. We were building VMs and remarking at how fast it all went. Planning and managing cabling from a traditional blade solution to the storage and ethernet networks is a usually a major task. However, with UCS it was all just as simple as choosing how much redundancy/performance we wanted between the 6120s and the chassis and then connecting the uplinks to the network and storage.<br /><br />Administration - The UCS Manager interface is far and away the best of breed interface I've used. In comparing it to the Dell, HP, and IBM systems I've managed in the past I certainly have developed a love for how logically it's laid out. A lot of what you'll pay extra for to buy something like IBM's Open Fabric Manager is included in the UCS solution, multi-chassis blade redundancy for example. It also doesn't require a separate server and is already redundant as the solution is designed that way. UCS feels to me like it's more IT administrator centric than the counterparts that I've used."Steve Kaplan (@ROIdude)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05552085199584744470noreply@blogger.com