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Exploring Cisco UCS Emulator Internals

This post looks under the hood at the internals of the Cisco UCS Platform Emulator and points out a number of interesting things about the emulator. It assumes that you are familiar with UCS.

UCSM Emulator Updated

Cisco UCS Platform Emulator, Release 2.2 (2cPE1), a minor point release, was announced June 4th 2014. The emulator, by the way, is based on CentOS. It adds support for the following new hardware: B260-M4 and B460-M4 blade servers C460-M4 rack server UCSB-F-LSI-400S, UCSB-F-LSI-800M, UCSB-F-FIO-785M, UCSB-F-FIO-365M storage accelerators The default configuration is changed from Mark 2 to Mark 3 blade and rack-mounted servers. All in all a solid point release which installs without a problem in VMware Workstation or Oracle Virtual Box.

NX-OS NETCONF Support

This post demonstrates how to use the NX-OS XML interfaces and NETCONF to retrieve configuration information from, and configure interfaces on, a Cisco Nexus 7000.

Accessing Cisco Secure ACS 5.X Internals

Cisco Secure Access Control System is based on CentOS. This post will show you how to access the Bash shell as root, and explores the underlying filesystem layout and utilities which make up this product..