[c-nsp] Cisco UCS Rack servers - C2xxx or C4xxx

[John Kougoulos]

Martin,

have a look also at the posts by Brad Hedlund:

http://bradhedlund.com/topics/cisco-ucs/

Regards,
John

On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Martin T wrote:
> 2011/7/22 Pete Templin <petelists at templin.org>:
>> On 7/21/2011 4:25 PM, Martin T wrote:
>>>
>>> Chris,
>>> I have no hands-on experience with those servers, but as much as I
>>> have read, they seem to be solid x86 servers. In addition, this "Cisco
>>> Unified Computing System Extended Memory Technology" seems to be a
>>> nice feature.
>>>
>>>
>>> Pete,
>>> except the "Cisco Unified Computing System Extended Memory
>>> Technology"(at least I haven't seen such feature on other provider
>>> servers), do they have any additional unique features or differences
>>> compared to Dell, IBM or HP servers?
>>>
>> The system management is extremely impressive.  Note that the blade
>> enclosures MUST be networked through the UCS Fabric Interconnect; the FI is