Avoiding human errors with Cisco NX-OS "Grace Periods"

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Cisco offers “Evaluation” time intervals (Grace Periods) for some features of Cisco NX-OS on Data Center switches such as Nexus 7000 or Nexus 5000. It is a nice design because customer can evaluate whether those specific features are suitable for their needs or not, before they really buy that license. This is also very useful for PoC (Proof of Concept) installation.

It is really simple to start evaluation. First we enable evaluation grace periods by “license grace-period” command. Then we only have to type “feature X” commands at the CLI as if we have bought the license.

Configuring Cisco UCS Native Zoning (Video)

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Starting from UCS Manager 2.1, you can configure FC Zoning to protect FC network. This video demonstrate how to configure FC Zoning at UCS Manager side.

New Google Plus Community: "Using Cisco UCS". Welcome!

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Are you deploying Cisco UCS as your Data Center Server solutions? Are you administering Cisco UCS pods? Are you designing solutions based on Cisco UCS? Or, are you just interested in what Cisco UCS is? Here I have a good news for you.

+Michael Gaskin and I created a new Google Plus Community named "Using Cisco UCS". You can share your experiences, ask a question, or answer other people's question, anything about Cisco UCS in one place.