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About 9 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco UCS B-Series: Replacing Fabric interconnects and IOMs can be done while the system is up and serving production data. However, I'd like to see an integrated management interface for all NetApp Flexpod products.

About 9 years ago

Commented on Solutions that we put up on FlexPod were best-practices configurations - SharePoint, Exchange, SQL. They can all be downloaded from the FlexPod portal which reduces the risk of incompatibility

UCS Mini with a FAS 2250 and a pair of 9K Nexus switches makes for a great SMB FlexPod. It's not a huge system, but can handle a heavy workload. It can go in along-side existing infrastructure without having to remove what a company has already invested in. Worth looking…

About 9 years ago

Commented on It's stable and we haven't had any outages. However, there's no single FlexPod support and we have to initiate calls with each vendor first.

If you call NetApp or Cisco or VMware and tell them you have a FlexPod, they are supposed to get the rest of the vendors on the line for you as needed. I've had to call in several times and they've done that for me.

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About 9 years ago

Cisco UCS B-Series

Replacing Fabric interconnects and IOMs can be done while the system is up and serving production data. However, I'd like to see an integrated management interface for all NetApp Flexpod products.

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About 9 years ago

Converged Infrastructure

Solutions that we put up on FlexPod were best-practices configurations - SharePoint, Exchange, SQL. They can all be downloaded from the FlexPod portal which reduces the risk of incompatibility

About 9 years ago

Converged Infrastructure

It's stable and we haven't had any outages. However, there's no single FlexPod support and we have to initiate calls with each vendor first.