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Month: July 2016

Cisco UCS Mini – A Simple How-To

Cisco UCS Mini – A Simple How-To

Hello and welcome back. Today, let’s learn about Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems (UCS) technology. If you haven’t heard of Cisco UCS before, this might be a good opportunity for you to keep yourself updated with the recent developments in IT industry. Basically, UCS is an aggregation of computing systems, virtualization, switching fabric and centralized management for deploying and running the entire data center. As part of UCS, Cisco provides rack-mount servers and blade servers for computing and Nexus/MDS switches for fabric switching….

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LAMP- Installation and Configuration in CentOS 7

LAMP- Installation and Configuration in CentOS 7

Hello! Today, let’s install and configure a web server (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP = LAMP) in CentOS7 platform. I think this subject can be very helpful to web developers, students and system administrators. Without any adieu, let’s get started with the installation and configuration. Installation of CentOS 7 I’ve already written blogs on installation and initial configuration of CentOS 7 operating system in my previous posts. You can refer to these blog posts: Creating VM in VMware…

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Cisco MDS Switch Setup For FC Based SAN

Cisco MDS Switch Setup For FC Based SAN

Welcome back! In this post, I’m getting into somehow different topic than my usual ones. Here, the subject matter that I’m diving into is storage traffic switching with Cisco MDS series switches. If you’re new to this subject, here are some basic introductions: First, Storage Area Network (SAN) is much like the well-known Local Area Network (LAN), with an exception that it carries storage traffic or SCSI commands among storage devices (target) and servers/clients (initiator). There are mainly two technologies that…

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