Matt Oswalt

UCS Central 1.1 Lab

August 2, 2013 in Systems1 minute

I saw the announcement that Cisco had posted the emulator for UCS version 2.1(2a) a week ago.

This was pretty cool, seeing as the firmware version in general had only been out for a few weeks, and the emulators have traditionally taken a bit longer after their firmware release.

I took this as an opportunity to set up my own UCS Central lab. I was able to set up two instances of UCSPE 2.1(2a) and an instance of UCS Central, all within a hypervisor. This means a lot to me for practicing lab scenarios with the product, in addition to just seeing what all the hubbub was about with UCS Central.

So, naturally I put together a KIC LAB for UCS Central to walk through the installation and a few quick configurations:

(For some reason it’s playing in low-res for me by default - select 720p if it’s too grainy)

P.S. - I’d like to point out to Cisco that I appreciate the move to a web-based interface, but Flash is not REALLY an improvement on Java.

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Matt Oswalt

Principal Systems Engineer at Cloudflare focused on traffic engineering, Rust, and highly available distributed systems.

Writes primarily about systems programming, Linux networking, machine learning, and lessons learned from building and operating large-scale production systems.