M. Sean McGee

April 7^th, 2011 (updated May 6th, 2011)

I love a box of chocolates for one simple reason – it provides a variety of bite-sized samples.  I get to taste several small samples and quickly determine which ones interest me and which ones don’t.  Well, why not package technical product discussions the same way?  I mean, why not provide several time-sized sample discussions of the technical advantages of a product or solution and let the consumer quickly determine which ones interest them or not?

Allow me to introduce you to the first round of the “Cisco UCS Advantage Series”…or, as I refer to it, a box of UCS chocolates.  This series was developed by Cisco to give our customers a quick sampling of just a few of the technical advantages of Cisco’s Unified Computing System solution.  Go on…sample a few.  They’re low calorie.

Special recognition to Dan Hanson (@danhanso) and his team of exceptional UCS engineers for producing this series.

__We’ve now posted all of these videos in one place on Cisco.com. I recommend visiting this location for the most up-to-date list of videos:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/ps10265/ucs_advantage_video_library.html

Introduction to the Cisco UCS Advantage Series

UCS Server: Service Profiles and Templates

 

UCS Server: Server Pre-Provisioning

 

UCS Server: BIOS Policies

 

UCS Server: RAID Policies

 

UCS Server: Firmware Policies

 

UCS Server: Server Pools and Qualification Policies

 

UCS Server: Maintenance Policies

 

UCS Server: High Availability During Upgrades

 

UCS Server: Monitoring with BMC BPPM

 

UCS Server: Microsoft Hyper-V on UCS

 

UCS Server: Extended Memory Technology

 

UCS Server: Organizations and Roles

 

UCS I/O: Adapter Templates

 

UCS I/O: Network Interface Virtualization

 

UCS I/O: Adapter Fabric Failover

 

UCS I/O: Extend the Network to the Virtual Machine with VM-FEX

 

UCS I/O: Traffic Analysis of All Servers

 

UCS I/O: Ethernet Switching Modes

 

UCS I/O: Fibre Channel and Switch Modes

 

UCS I/O: FC Port Channels and Trunking

 

UCS Infrastructure: Lights-Out Management

 

UCS Infrastructure: Easy VM-FEX Deployment

 

UCS Infrastructure: Blade and Rack-Mount Management

 

UCS Infrastructure: Server Power Grouping

 

UCS Infrastructure: Manager Platform Emulator

 

UCS Infrastructure: Server Power Grouping and Prioritization (added May 6th, 2011)

 

UCS Infrastructure: Cisco Developer Network and Sandbox