Category Archives: Cisco

Summary: High performance Splunk with VMware on top of EMC ScaleIO and Isilon

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Jonas Rosland

I recently did a project involving several moving parts, including Splunk, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS servers, EMC XtremSF cards, ScaleIO and Isilon. The project goal was to verify the functionality and performance of EMC storage together with Splunk. The results of … Continue reading →

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Summary of Cisco Live UK 2013 through the eyes of a vSpecialist

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Jonas Rosland

Hats off to Cisco for a great event last week, very well executed! I was lucky enough to be a part of this year’s event, and was there in the role of an “Expert Roamer” which meant I should pick … Continue reading →

Posted in Automation, Big Data, Cisco, Converged Infrastructure, EMC, IT Transformation, Puppet, VCE, VMware, VPLEX, VSPEX | 1 Comment

Going to Cisco Live in London this week? Don’t miss out on all the cool stuff!

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Jonas Rosland

If you’re one of the lucky ~4000 people who’ll attend Cisco Live in London this week, I hope you’ll enjoy it to the fullest. Make sure you go to interesting sessions, attend cool vendor demos in the exhibition center, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Automation, Backup, Big Data, Cisco, Converged Infrastructure, EMC, IT Transformation, Unified Storage, VCE, VSPEX | Leave a comment

Deploying VMware ESXi on your HP MicroServer automatically with Razor

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Jonas Rosland

Also posted on Simon Seagrave’s Techhead.co. Razor is a cool new deployment tool for your entire server infrastructure. It’s has been and is still being developed as a joint venture between EMC and Puppetlabs (who also make the amazing open source … Continue reading →

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