Nexus 5K Overview

Some basics on the 5010, 5020, 5548P/UP and 5596UP/T. This post is still a work in progress.

UCS Stats Management

Just another post to be sure that I have all the bases covered.

UCS LDAP Authentication

A simple LDAP Authentication post.  I have no way to verify any of this so I'm hoping it's correct.

UCS Admin Tab

There are seven tabs and 2 other items in this section. I plan a subsequent post on LDAP authentication and Stats Management as these are fairly involved.
  • Faults, events and audit log
  • User management
  • Key management
  • Communication management
  • Stats management
  • Timezone management
  • Capability catalog
  • License management 

Jumbo MTU Cheatsheet

How the maximum MTU is configured across the different CCIE DC lab devices is fairly complex and varied.  I've condensed my understanding of how to configure in the document below.  For reference material I used the fantastic post by Peter Revill (http://www.ccierants.com/2013/10/ccie-dc-definitive-jumbo-frames.html) and various Cisco documents.  Any mistakes are clearly mine.

ISLB Example Configurations

A few examples of different ISLB configurations:

Nexus 5000 FCoE Notes

Just some notes from reading about FCoE on the 5K.

ISCSI Boot Policy in UCS

I seem to always forget that when creating a boot policy to boot from ISCSI, you must choose "create a specific boot policy" for the ISCSI vNIC to be displayed as an option.

Nexus 7000 Storage Notes

Some notes I have from reading about SAN on the Nexus 7000.