While I was on holiday last week, my Cisco UCS colleague Brad Hedlund released some awesome training information. Bear in mind that Brad did this on his own initiative, in his own time, to help the community of UCS practitioners and just check the quality of content and presentation. A W E S O M E
Cisco UCS Networking Best Practices (in HD)
There’s not just ONE video but TEN!
- Part 1 – Cisco UCS Networking Overview
- Part 2 – Switch Mode vs. End Host Mode
- Part 3 – End Host Mode – Individual Uplinks
- Part 4 – Port Channel Uplinks
- Part 5 – Virtual Port Channel Uplinks (vPC)
- Part 6 – Connecting Cisco UCS to separate networks
- Part 7 – Inter Fabric Traffic Examples
- Part 8 – Don’t: Connect Cisco UCS to vPC domains without vPC uplinks
- Part 9 – Do: Connect Cisco UCS to vPC domains with vPC uplinks
- Part 10 – Connecting Cisco UCS without vPC
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Thanks Steve! I’m just trying to keep up with all the awesome stuff you’re doing these days.