Excited Child

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.

  1. The Financial Justification: I am planning to work with Steve Kaplan / roidude on this.
  2. Proof of Concept: what goals and objectives, and how?
  3. Design and Planning: for your new data center 3.0.
  4. Architect, Build and Test: from basic system health to standard operational procedures using the scientific method of good2great.
  5. 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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