Just a quick note from the field (as it were). If you’ve been blessed enough to get a Cisco C-series server, there’s a nifty new Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) release available as of today’s writing.
Version 1.0(1e) was the shipping release as of January 2010.
Version 1.0(2) is the latest point release available as of March 2010.
I finally received some new servers in the Atmos lab and…well, I thought I’d share with you!!! These are Cisco C200 M1 servers and they’re loaded out in the following config:
Ok, ok….I know I should actually write stuff out from time to time, but, seriously, the Flip UltraHD makes this waaaay too easy…
In any case, here’s a quick (11 minutes…sorry…) video with my DataCenter wish list….(some of these items have already been answered, but, I’ll let you discover that in some of my postings in early 2010).
Of course, my wishlist is full of cool things like Cisco UCS and C-series servers, Nexus and Arista Networks switching, Qlogic CNAs and switches, Mellanox and Qlogic QDR infiniband switches and clusters, and EMC V-Max, CLARiiON, and Celerra (of course Atmos is implicit) storage systems. What’s on YOUR list?
As I’ve said before, Merry Christmas and may you know PEACE and JOY in the new year!
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