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Martijn Smit

Senior Datacenter Engineer

Network & Systems Engineer with current focus on virtualization (primarily VMware) and a lot of experience in the business ISP (Internet Service Provider) field. Extensive knowledge of networking, virtualization, (database) clustering, colocation, rackspace and shared webhosting.

Currently working as a project engineer designing and deploying infrastructure based on Cisco (UCS, Nexus, Catalyst), NetApp, VMware automation software for VDI and hosting platforms.

Specialties: VMware, Networking, Technical Sales, Programming (C, C++, Objective-C, web languages)

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February 4, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

Cisco UCS Mini – a deep dive

5 min read

In September 2014, Cisco launched the UCS Mini for what they dubbed “Edge-Scale Computing”. The UCS Mini offering is a stripped down version of the classic UCS system with Fabric Interconnects. To learn about classic UCS, click here. In this post I will go into some details about the UCS Mini that I’ve learned over […]