How to upgrade Cisco VIC drivers via VMware Update Manager
After upgrading the UCS firmware and installing ESXi on the C220 M5s, I wanted to upgrade the native VIC drivers using offline bundles provided by Cisco. Of course,…
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How to upgrade UCS firmware
This week I spent some time upgrading UCS firmware for a client’s infrastructure. All the firmware. The BIOS, Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC), the MLOM (Management Lights out…
Citrix Provisioning Services & Cisco UCS Blades
By Jacques Bensimon: I recently had to make a provisioned XenApp 6.5 vDisk boot on Cisco UCS B-Series blades outfitted with a Cisco VIC network interface card (probably…
EMC World 2011–View on vBlock notes
Joel Ramirez is currently in sunny Las Vegas at EMC World 2011. Despite the ever increasing temptation of Blackjack tables and Showgirls, he managed to send me…
Tech Field Day Bahston!
Tomorrow is my Tech Field Day in Boston so I’m gearing up for that. Stephen Foskett was kind enough to invite me for a second time to this…
Citrix Provisioning Server Best Practices
Disabling Spanning Tree or Enabling PortFast With Spanning Tree or Rapid Spanning Tree Protocols the ports are placed into a "blocked" state while the switch transmits Bridged Protocol…
ESX 3.5 Cisco Discovery Protocol [CDP] Support
One cool new feature of ESX 3.5 is their Cisco Discovery Protocol Support. CDP allows ESX to capture and broadcast Cisco related information to and from the switches.…