After the long waiting from the previous training in Singapore, finally I get my 1st real life hands on physically with the demo box sitting in my office today. I just manage to unpack the entire Cisco UCS from the box today and start to configure it. My 1st experience to setup the Cisco UCS from the scratch are not too tough.

Before you can start your configuration, you will need to physically slot in the blade to the chassis and get the FCoE connections connected from chassis to the switches. Physical connectivity are simple and straight forward as there are not much cabling to be involved. Here are some of the picture I manage to capture from my iPhone today. There will be more screen shot and picture to be come later in the next few post.

Cisco UCS

This is the physical outlook of the Cisco UCS B200M1 which are fully populated with 4GB memory module.


Cisco UCS
This is the front view of the Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis with 5 units of  UCS B200 M1

Cisco UCS
This picture show the blade lock integrated to the chassis. You must use the lock correctly to slot in or remove the blade from the chassis. Simple and easy.

As today is Friday and I am quite busy with others stuff, I promise there will be more information to be shared by end of next week. I will start testing the system on next Monday onward.