Feb 19 2014
If you have a Cisco UCS system, you probably want to do SAN boot. It is a simple, and quick task to perform. This is a follow up to an earlier post on UCS with local FC storage. Just remember that boot order changes require a reboot of the Service Profiles and associated blades. …
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Feb 13 2014
If you have Cisco Wireless Lan Controllers (WLC) version 7.4 and newer, there is a nice new feature called “Application Visibility” that you can turn on per SSID. There are only a few steps to enable this feature and get visibility into your wireless network. You must do this on every WLC in your network …
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Feb 05 2014
We are in the process of installing 2 Cisco 8500 wireless controllers. After going through the initial configuration, we noticed that the ports Link Status on the 8500 controller showed Down and we were unable to ping our controllers: (Cisco Controller) >show stats port sum Link …
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Feb 05 2014
Roles Bridges: root non-root Ports: Root Port (RP) Designated Port (DP) Non-designated Port (NDP) Overview For each VLAN choose one root bridge The switch with the lowest Bridge ID (BID) BID consists of 4-bit priority value (multiple of 4096) + 12-bit VLAN ID + MAC address Priority defaults to 8 (8 * 4096 = …
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Feb 03 2014
If you are trying to add FC storage to your UCS environment, you can quickly do so by connecting a storage server using FC staright into the Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects. I have in the past used Openfiler, Nexenta and now use Tegile as my storage platform. Here is a quick guide to …
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