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VMware-UCS Networking: Removing the Nexus Hairpin
I had some problems introducing M4 blades and a C Series (C240) server into an existing UCS infrastructure. All the new servers had VMware ESXi 5.5 installed on them and were vCenter cluster members....
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SAN Boot Windows Servers on Cisco UCS Blades
We purchased a couple more Cisco B200 M4 blades specifically to run Microsoft SQL locally. That might sound a little old school, but we’re finding out that virtualizing all of our SQL servers is not...
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Cisco UCS Not Ready To Manage C-Series Storage
For the last six months I’ve been trying to implement Cisco’s C Class rack mount servers into the existing UCS infrastructure. It hasn’t gone well, especially when considering the low baseline which is...
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Pure Storage Transforms SQL Into a Lean Mean Machine
We added a Pure Storage flash array over a year ago to house our VMware VDI infrastructure and it worked well but it was never really tested. The number of desktops didn’t reach the number I had hoped...
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Boot Cisco Blades Over iSCSI
This was never the plan; it was an adjustment after we needed a B200-M4 blade at our secondary site to boot VMware without a disk or SD card. I figured it would be easier (and quicker) to configure the...
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iSCSI Setup on Dell Compellent Array
In my efforts to get the hell away from RDM disks in VMware, using the Dell Compellent for iSCSI connections became a necessity.There’s good blog post here that runs through most of this. I’ve added...
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Replace RDM Disks with iSCSI on Microsoft Clusters
The days of VMware RDM(s) are over. That’s what the interweb tells me anyway, and I’m cool with that. I’m really cool with it after I discovered that RDM mappings on a VMware host slows its boot time...
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Mass Installing VMware Horizon Desktop Agents with Microsoft SCCM
I’m just going to cut to the chase here and give the answer to this problem with a Persistent/Full Clone desktop pool: What do you do when you can’t mass install VMware View 7 desktop agents...
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UCS Blades, SAN Connections and the VMware BootBank
This post covers VMware error 21009 (unable to install VMware Tools) or “Unable to install VMware Tools: An error occurred while trying to access image file “/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/windows.iso”...
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Specific SSO errors and fixes covered: Invalid SAML Assertion (13), Untrusted Issuer (24) Single-Sign On allows users to access web based applications with their domain credentials, thus eschewing the...
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