CISCO UCS 5108 Blade Servers Upgrade and Capacity Expansion

Hi There, As an specialist in thismatters, i am so confidence i can get your job done smoothly. please ping me on freelancer to start a conversation. Regards, Rafa

"We anticipate the upgrade to take one day and will require a freelancer who will be available fully to perform pre-installation checks and updates to firmware/software as well as end to end checks and any communication with Cisco TAC during this project" Communications with Cisco TAC can take from one day to a week. "VMWare is currently running on the existing blades and the new blades/capacity must be made available for the VMWare layer." So project goal is: 1) configuring new 5108 chassis with two blades; 2) configuring SAN zoning; 3) setup/configuring VMware ESXi on blades. Am I right? First part is just creating service profiles for new blades and associating them with blades. Second part can be tricky but well documented (Flexpod design guide). Third part can take the most of time. About me: Data Center engineer with 8+ years experience with enterprise hardware (HP/Dell/IBM/Cisco blades and servers, IBM mainframes, EMC/HDS/IBM/NetApp SAN/NAS) and vendor certifications (RedHat RHCE, Cisco CCNA DC in progress and many others Data Center focused trainings) Occupied from 09:00 to 19:00 GMT+5 on my primary job (available for urgent cases by SMS).

What you are asking for would require a little more budget which is why I put in over the budget. I am willing to discuss the cost of the project with you further. With that being said, I am currently a Sr. Systems Admin with vast experience in Cisco networking and UCS. I have deployed a chassis of 10 blades and configured it with VMware with all the VLANs segmented to each aspect of the business. This is something that I have done since the early days of UCS and know their systems very well. I can also offer you communication like no other on freelancer. I respond to communications of any sort in a short time and will give detailed progress of my progression throughout the project.

I have implement Cisco UCS blades with Netapp FAS8020 controllers. Recovery site has IBM blades with Netapp FAS3020 Controllers. Each site is replicated using Netapp Snapmirror with VMware SRM being the coordination tool of site recovery.