Cisco UCS
Excited Child
I start my new job on Monday @ Cisco, and I managed to get on an internal UCS course in my first week, which is a real result!
I plan to Tweet and Blog about the course next week and the juicy stuff I find, plus pictures of course.
I’ve started a Cisco UCS page to dump all the things I learn about the platform. The kind of things I’m interested in are as follows – for each of these I’m looking at UCS + vSphere, not just UCS on its own.
- The Financial Justification: I am planning to work with Steve Kaplan / roidude on this.
- Proof of Concept: what goals and objectives, and how?
- Design and Planning: for your new data center 3.0.
- Architect, Build and Test: from basic system health to standard operational procedures using the scientific method of good2great.
- High Performance Operations: how to exploit UCS and vSphere to deliver a superlative operational IT system and give the business a competitive edge in terms of throughput and cost.
As well as tweeting and blogging, I also intend to dive into the Cisco Community as well as keep my foot in the VMware Community and my old baby VIOPS.
I’ve started the Cisco UCS section on the blog, and it has an interesting document on it already – check it out!
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Congrats on the move, Steve – both VMW and CSCO are great, great companies. Hope you can have the same effect there you did at VMware! Loads of intermingling, which is good.
I almost feel like I’m cheating somehow just by being able to read your blog. Exciting stuff, I think you’ve created some pretty high expectations for your readers. Looking forward to following along as you begin your new journey w/ Cisco (congrats again on that btw) and will of course continue to rely on your previous posts for inspiration, direction and plain ol’ reference. Good luck Monday!
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All the best Steve, enjoy your new role…..
Remember your pencil case and writing pad on the first day at office