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DEKALB, Ill. - Forty-six Northern Illinois University student-athletes from 14 Huskie teams celebrated commencement along with their classmates on Saturday, May 11 at the NIU Convocation Center.
NIU's 2014 spring graduates come from 21 different majors, with programs like biological sciences, health sciences/pre-physical therapy, kinesiology and nursing boasting three or more graduates each. The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences featured the most graduates with 28. Additionally, the College of Health & Human Sciences had seven graduates and the Colleges of Business and Education boasted six each.
"I'm extremely proud of our 46 spring 2014 graduates," said NIU Associate Vice-President and Director of Athletics Sean T. Frazier. "I had the opportunity to attend all three graduation ceremonies on Saturday and it was exciting to see so many familiar faces walk across the stage. At the end of the day, graduation is what it is all about - that's the big win for these student-athletes and their families, and for NIU as an institution and as an athletics department."
Among Huskie teams, eight members of the NIU football program earned their degrees and three of those: Da'Ron Brown (sociology), Ryan Brown (leadership and management) and Akeem Daniels (organizational/corporate communications) - will return to the gridiron in 2014. Women's soccer featured six graduates, while baseball and gymnastics each had five and track & field/cross country and softball both saw four student-athletes earn their degrees. Men's basketball, women's basketball, women's golf, men's soccer, volleyball and wrestling all had two each. Men's golf and men's tennis rounded out the group with one apiece.
Below is a complete list of NIU's 2013 spring and summer student-athlete graduates by sport with their majors. Returning student-athletes are indicated by a *.
Football (8)
Perez Ashford - Sociology
*Da'Ron Brown - Sociology
*Ryan Brown - Leadership and Management
*Akeem Daniels - Organizational/Corporate Communications
Matt Krempel - Sport and Exercise Psychology
Mathew Sims - Organizational/Corporate Communications
James Spencer - Media Studies
Joe Windsor - Kinesiology
Women's Soccer (6)
Devin Bond - Organizational/Corporate Communications
Amy Carr - Kinesiology
Taylor Conter - Anthropology
Cori Frankenberg - Media Studies
Samantha Hill - Environmental Studies
Courtney Ksiazek - Operations and Information Management
Baseball (5)
Joe Battaglia - Organizational/Corporate Communications
Chris Divarco - Political Science
Connor Duckhorn - General Emphasis
Alex Klonowski - Accountancy
Connor Schomig - Organizational/Corporate Communications
Gymnastics (5)
Kim Gotlund - Health Sciences/Pre-Physical Therapy
Elizabeth Huffman - Nursing
Natasha Jufko - Organizational/Corporate Communications
Marisa Liptak - Elementary Education
Megan Melendez - Biological Sciences
Softball (4)
Nicole Gremillion - Organizational/Corporate Communications
Ashley Kopp - Biological Sciences
Shelby Miller - Organizational/Corporate CommunicationsB
Erika Oswald - Biological Sciences
Track & Field/Cross Country (4)
Alexis Capps - Rehabilitation Services
Erica Miller - Nursing
Darren Sio - Nursing
Juliane Totzke - Chemistry-Biochemistry
Men's Basketball (2)
Aksel Bolin - Organizational/Corporate CommunicationsB
Antone Christian - Health Sciences/Pre-Physical Therapy
Women's Basketball (2)
Ashley Sneed - Organizational/Corporate CommunicationsM
Jenna Thorp - Health Sciences/Pre-Physical Therapy
Women's Golf (2)
Jenny Niemiec - Organizational/Corporate Communications
Allie Parthie - Biological Sciences
Men's Soccer (2)
Gael Rivera - Leadership and Management
Sean Totsch - Operations and Information Management
Volleyball (2)
Sarah Angelos - Business Administration
Kayla Zeno - Biological Sciences
Wrestling (2)
Nick Smith - Kinesiology
Jared Torrence - Psychology
Men's Golf (1)
Shawn Foley - Actuarial Science
Men's Tennis (1)
Max Phillips - Kinesiology


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Our Club president, Shirley Devan, was selected by WHRO and Dominion Power to receive one of six 2012 Community Impact Awards. Her award was in the category of the Environment. The award brings a $1000 donation to the organization of her choice. She has decided to divide the award between the Williamsburg Bird Club and the Coastal Virginia Wildlife Organization (for their 50th Anniversary).
Watch this video produced for the award ceremony (and aired on WHRO-TV)
Join us Wednesday, April 18 for Calypso Birding in Trinidad & Tobago, a presentation by Randy Thrasher that features the birds and sights that Randy and his wife Sue enjoyed while traveing in that country of two islands in the summer of 2009. Randy is a VSO Life Member and has become passionate about videotaping birds and other animals. He and his wife have had an opportunity to go to far-away places to bird. Smaller birds are not often seen in nature presentations because of the difficulties with video recording them, and this is Randy's greatest interest.
Plan to join us on April 18 at 7:30 pm in Room 150, Millington Hall on the W&M campus. Lois Ullman will be providing the refreshments. Don't forget to use your parking permit.
Bird Club members Alice and Seig Kopinitz say they've had their first Ruby-Throated Hummingbird sighting of the year! Get your feeders out. The appropriate feeding solution for your hummingbird feeders is four parts water to one part sugar. Please do not use artificial sweeteners (such as Splenda). Nor should you use corn syrup, molasses, honey, or fruit juice. A sugar and water mixture most closely matches the contents of the nectar hummingbirds get from flowers. Also, please do not use food coloring. The best practice is to boil the water and let it cool to room temperature, then mix in the sugar. The solution should be room temperature when you pour it into your feeder and when you place your feeder outside. Please do not place an extremely hot or refrigerated solution outside for the birds. Regularly clean your feeder and replace the solution every 2-3 days, especially if it becomes cloudy.


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Three of the four Wiggles were pre-school teachers before they started the children's program, two played in the 80s Australian pop-rock band The Cockroaches, and they are all, more or less, the way you see them on TV in reality.
Anthony Field (blue) really does love fruit salad, Murray Cook (red) has a huge guitar collection, Sam Moran (yellow) is a trained opera singer and Jeff Fatt (purple) is as laid back as his sleepy alter ego.
The Australian fab four come to the Maverik Center for the Wiggly Circus Live on Aug. 3. Click here to win tix. Jeff Fatt describes the show as a cross between a Broadway show and a circus. Tons of acrobatics and tumbling, assisted by actual gymnasts to make the guys look good.
The show has already been all over the world: USA, UK, Asia, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. I chatted with Jeff Fatt about the show, the group and their trip to Utah. He managed to stay awake the entire time, and remembers Utah from the Eagle Gate in downtown SLC.
What's with your character always falling asleep?
"It's a way to engage the children without doing anything, and it's a really empowering thing for a kid to yell 'wake up' to a grown up. I also think it's a big extension of my personality."
What will we see at the show?
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What's in it for the parents?
"We always try to make it work on both levels. There might be a joke the parents will get, but at the same time someone might be falling over. We always have a lot going on onstage."
How do the Wiggles like to travel?
"We always do it by tour busses. It's the easiest way to get around American and relieves the stress of traveling through airports. So, we just bus to the hotel and the venue, and on our day off we go to a shopping mall somewhere."
When you travel is your bus all wiggled out?
"It's actually very discreet. It's silver and has bunks in it, so we can sleep between cities. We've had trips up to 18 hours, but usually six or seven."
Will the kids get to meet you at the show?
"We usually hold our meet and greets with programs for children with disabilities or are sick. We see them a lot, and it's really nice they get a kick out of it."
Do you change the show based on the location you perform?
"We pretty well keep it the same. We might change small things like the fruit we eat on stage. In Dubai it was dates. We also might mention some of the local landmarks and things like that."
Any message to parents?
"It's a wonderful family event. If it's your child's first show, take them in gently. It could be a totally new experience, but they will enjoy it when they get accustomed to the arena."
Will the kids get to wake you up at the show?
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The 14th-ranked Buccaneers - who had entered the day just three strokes out of the lead - fired the second highest team score of the third round, posting an 18-over 306 to drop from second place to a final standing of 12th in the 18-team field. ETSU's former Southern Conference rival
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She used to have a triple 69.. did someone take a screenie?
She used to have a triple 69.. did someone take a screenie?
Woo, unsuckiness galore!
Who on earth would rep her to 696970 anyway? 696969 is a blessed number.
Not me! BUT I THINK GOD CAN FIX THAT
not any more!
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unless dogar only redid it for the admins
he must've because I'm still only allowed to have 50 pms
I have 3. SOMEONE PM ME!!
I am cool, I have 20
It's probably a lot less. Because they count PMs you send too. On the ProBoard, it counted only PM's you recieved
What are you talking about. It's 5,000.
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me!!!!!! my entire existence hinges on pointing out his shortcomings and ways in which i'm better than him. really, i'm the only person on pokedream who god had to make a rule against trolling him. it's kind of funny. i'm actually glad dogar is on pokedream, as weird as that is to say, otherwise the forum would have no bad posters to make fun of.....
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The computer industry is on the threshold of a major transition. The x86 architecture has remained virtually unchanged since the 1990s, and while processors and systems have become smaller and more powerful, the challenges of server sprawl, power and cooling, policy coherency, security, and management have continued to grow. Over the past decade the widespread adoption of virtualization has enabled server consolidation and has made the virtual machine a basic deployment object. Yet complexity has increased unabated, and the data center deployment model has continued to require the manual assembly of a large number of individual components. Consider the sources of complexity in today's virtualized and nonvirtualized server environments:
● Every rack-mount or blade server and chassis is a separate point of management, each having its own unique identity and I/O configuration that is tied to the hardware, reducing the ability to respond quickly to workload changes.
● Updating server, blade, and chassis firmware is a manual and time-consuming process.
● The network access layer has fragmented into multiple levels, including access-layer switches, switches integrated into blade chassis, and software switches required by virtualization software. Each switch has its own unique set of features and limitations that add new layers of management to an already complex environment.
● Virtual server sprawl has resulted from the notion that virtual machines are "free," yet the IT organizations that support them know that a new set of issues has been created. The increasing number of components in data center environments has caused a proliferation of management tools that has made network policy difficult to track with virtual machine movement and has increased the difficulty of securing both networks and storage to the same standards as discrete servers and operating systems.
● Shared storage is a requirement for using some of virtualization's best features, including dynamic virtual machine movement and high availability. When access to Fibre Channel SANs is added to every server in a rack, suddenly the required number of cables, adapters, and upstream switch ports increases dramatically.
The industry is on the threshold of the next logical step in a natural progression that began with standardization on the x86 architecture and virtualization. The second phase was accomplished by the delivery of a unified network fabric that optimizes and extends data center technologies through consolidation and virtualization across the network, storage, servers, and applications. The third phase virtualizes the entire data center through an integrated architecture that brings together network, compute, storage access, and virtualization resources. At Cisco we refer to this transition as unified computing, and the Cisco® Unified Computing System is its first realization.
Introducing the Cisco Unified Computing System
The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. The system integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers. The system is an integrated, scalable, multichassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain. The main system components include:
● Compute: The system is based on an entirely new class of computing system that incorporates blade servers based on Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors. The blade servers offer patented Cisco Extended Memory Technology to support applications with large data sets and allow more virtual machines per server.
● Network: The system is integrated onto a low-latency, lossless, 10-Gbps unified network fabric. This network foundation consolidates what today are three separate networks: LANs, SANs, and high-performance computing networks. The unified fabric lowers costs by reducing the number of network adapters, switches, and cables, and by decreasing power and cooling requirements.
● Virtualization: The system unleashes the full potential of virtualization by enhancing the scalability, performance, and operational control of virtual environments. Cisco security, policy enforcement, and diagnostic features are now extended into virtualized environments to better support changing business and IT requirements.
● Storage access: The system provides consolidated access to both SAN storage and network attached storage (NAS) over the unified fabric. Unifying storage access means that the Cisco Unified Computing System can access storage over Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and iSCSI, providing customers with choice and investment protection. In addition, administrators can pre-assign storage-access policies for system connectivity to storage resources, simplifying storage connectivity and management while helping increase productivity.
● Management: The system uniquely integrates all the system components, enabling the entire solution to be managed as a single entity through Cisco UCS Manager software. Cisco UCS Manager provides an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), a command-line interface (CLI), and a robust application-programming interface (API) to manage all system configuration and operations. Cisco UCS Manager helps increase IT staff productivity, enabling storage, network, and server administrators to collaborate on defining service profiles for applications. Service profiles are logical representations of desired physical configurations and infrastructure policies. They help automate provisioning and increase business agility, allowing data center managers to provision resources in minutes instead of days.
Working as a single, cohesive system, these components unify technology in the data center. They represent a radical simplification in comparison to traditional systems, helping simplify data center operations while reducing power and cooling requirements. The system amplifies IT agility for improved business outcomes. The Cisco Unified Computing System components illustrated in Figure 1 include, from left to right, fabric interconnects, blade server chassis, blade servers, and in the foreground, fabric extenders and network adapters.
Integrated Cohesive System
The Cisco Unified Computing System integrates compute and network resources into a highly dynamic and coherently managed entity. The solution integrates a redundant 10-Gbps unified fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers. Managed as a single system whether it has 1 server or 160 servers with thousands of virtual machines, the Cisco Unified Computing System decouples scale from complexity.
Increased Business Agility
The system's cohesiveness enables the server and network state as well as the infrastructure policies such as power and cooling, security, identity, hardware health, and Ethernet and storage networking needed to deploy applications to be encapsulated in portable, repeatable service profiles. A service profile includes network identity information, MAC addresses and worldwide names (WWNs), I/O interface types and configuration, firmware versions, boot order and boot logical unit numbers (LUNs), RAID levels, and network connectivity characteristics including VLAN, quality of service (QoS), and VSAN. Service profiles form a complete specification of the network and compute resource requirements for a given application or workload, and they can be applied to any compute and network resource within the management domain. The service profile is the crucial technology that enables a highly dynamic environment that can be molded to meet rapidly changing business requirements. The system makes all workloads truly portable, whether virtualized or not.
IT organizations can quickly adapt to changing business requirements or workload fluctuations by just-in-time provisioning of resources to meet changing needs. Timeliness and accuracy is increased through consistent and automatic deployment of firmware and configuration settings. Service profiles enable the following benefits:
● Server, network, and storage administrators can make high-level architectural decisions and leave the repetitive implementation of them to operations staff or even to automated procedures, freeing administrators to focus on more strategic, business-critical issues.
● Existing software stacks can be migrated to any available discrete server within the system by creating and deploying a service profile that exactly re-creates the discrete system from which the workload migrated.
● OS and application software stacks can be moved between servers through dynamic provisioning. If a server fails, the software stack can be rebooted onto an exact replica including external network connectivity of the failed server. If an upgrade is needed, a new server with more resources can be provisioned and the software stack rebooted onto it. For example, a database management system might be moved from a server with 72 GB of main memory to one with 384 GB of main memory with a simple reboot onto a just-in-time provisioned server that has the same identity as the original.
● Virtual machine migration is supported throughout the system. I/O and network profiles, including VLAN settings, access-control lists (ACLs), QoS settings, buffering characteristics, and bandwidth parameters, move automatically with virtual machines to increase availability, security, and performance.
Scalability Decoupled from Complexity
The system is designed to be highly scalable, with up to 20 blade chassis and 160 blade servers connected by a single pair of fabric interconnects. New computing resources can be put into service quickly, saving valuable time otherwise consumed by manual provisioning processes. Cisco UCS Manager can recognize new resources as they are inserted into blade chassis slots, provision them, and put them into immediate use based on predefined policies. In addition, Cisco Extended Memory Technology provides more than double the amount of memory (384 GB) than traditional two-socket servers, increasing performance and capacity for demanding virtualization and large-data-set workloads. Additionally, this technology offers a more cost-effective path to support standard memory footprints for less-demanding workloads.
Radical Architectural Simplification
The Cisco Unified Computing System represents a radical simplification compared to the way that servers and networks are deployed today. It reduces network access-layer fragmentation by eliminating switching inside the blade server chassis. It integrates compute resources on a unified I/O fabric that supports standard IP protocols as well as Fibre Channel through Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) encapsulation. The system eliminates the limitations of fixed I/O configurations with an I/O architecture that can be changed through software on a per-server basis to provide needed connectivity using a just-in-time deployment model. The result of this radical simplification is fewer switches, cables, adapters, and management points, helping reduce cost, complexity, power needs, and cooling overhead.
End-to-End Optimization
The system delivers end-to-end optimization designed for virtualized environments while creating a more dynamic and mobile physical environment for traditional OS and application stacks. This feature empowers IT organizations to use the computing model that is most appropriate for the business problem to be solved, while protecting investments by allowing any compute resource to support either environment equally well.
When configured in blade servers, the Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card unleashes the full capabilities of the system's end-to-end support for virtualization. The card supports I/O devices whose type and identity are configured on demand. The card's dynamically provisioned network interfaces can be connected directly to virtual machines through pass-through switching or hypervisor bypass technology. The resulting interface definition and the network profile associated with it moves between servers along with virtual machines, allowing dynamic adjustment of the overall system to balance workloads, accommodate new applications, and respond to changing business requirements.
With end-to-end optimization comes reduced risk. The system's ability to provision and manage virtual machine connections just like physical machine network connections provides visibility into these virtual links. Now they can be managed for standards and regulatory compliance, audited, and managed on a per-virtual machine basis. QoS, for example, can be set up for virtual links as well as physical ones. The risk of a rogue virtual machine consuming all of a link's available bandwidth is mitigated not only by the capability to deploy per-virtual-link QoS, but also by the capability to discontinue that virtual machine's network connectivity without affecting other virtual machines on the same system.
Based on Industry Standards
The Cisco Unified Computing System reflects an exceptionally close collaboration between Cisco and its ecosystem partners. The unified fabric is based on 10 Gigabit Ethernet standards. It implements a set of standardized extensions that comprise Cisco Data Center Ethernet (Cisco DCE™), along with additional standardized features to support FCoE, enhanced flow control, and network management. Network adapters incorporate Ethernet NIC and Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) silicon from Cisco partners to provide compatibility with existing systems and drivers, management software, and data center best practices. Computing resources are based on industry-standard x86 system components. In addition, Cisco UCS Manager can export the system's configuration information to configuration management databases (CMDBs), facilitating processes based on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) concepts. Cisco UCS Manager's XML API also facilitates coordination with third-party provisioning tools that can deploy virtual machines as well as install operating systems and application software on servers configured with Cisco UCS Manager.
Designed for Energy Efficiency
Essentially every aspect of the Cisco Unified Computing System is designed for energy efficiency. The blade chassis is designed for outstanding airflow, with 63 percent of the midplane open for unobstructed airflow. Power supplies are 92-percent efficient. Eliminating blade chassis switches and consolidating NICs and HBAs reduces power requirements. The blade servers' Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors balance power consumption with performance by stepping down power during times of light use, and accelerating the clock rate of individual cores when demand is high and thermal conditions permit. The capability to install more memory per server eliminates the need to purchase, power, and cool additional two- or four-socket servers just to accommodate higher memory needs.
An Investment That Is Ready for the Future
The Cisco Unified Computing System gives data centers room to scale while anticipating future technology developments, helping increase return on investment today while protecting that investment over time. The blade server chassis, power supplies, and midplane are capable of handling future servers with even greater processing capacity. The chassis is ready to support future 40 Gigabit Ethernet standards when available.
Streamlined System Architecture
From a high-level perspective, the Cisco Unified Computing System consists of one or two Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects and one or more Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis populated with Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. Cisco UCS Manager software is embedded in the fabric interconnects and supports all server chassis as a single, redundant management domain.
Each chassis requires at least one 10 Gigabit unified fabric connection to a Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect. A maximum configuration of 40 blade chassis housing 320 blade servers would occupy all 40 fixed ports of a redundant pair of Cisco UCS 6140XP Fabric Interconnects. A typical configuration would have 2 to 4 unified fabric connections from each chassis to each member of an active-active pair of fabric interconnects.
For example, Figure 2 illustrates 36 blade server chassis connected to an active-active pair of fabric interconnects that support failover. Expansion modules from the two fabric interconnects deliver LAN traffic to the LAN aggregation or core layer and SAN traffic through native Fibre Channel to either of SAN A or SAN B.
The Cisco Unified Computing System reflects an exceptionally close collaboration between Cisco and its ecosystem partners. The unified fabric is based on 10 Gigabit Ethernet standards. It implements a set of standardized extensions that comprise Cisco Data Center Ethernet (Cisco DCE™), along with additional standardized features to support FCoE, enhanced flow control, and network management. CNAs incorporate Ethernet NIC and Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) silicon from Cisco partners to provide compatibility with existing systems and drivers, management software, and data center best practices. Computing resources are based on industry-standard x86 system components. In addition, Cisco UCS Manager supports integration with standards-based enterprise management systems; through its standards-based open API, the manager can integrate with higher-level provisioning and management tools that can provision OS and application stacks onto just-in-time provisioned servers.
A Future-Proof Investment
The Cisco Unified Computing System gives data centers room to scale while anticipating future technology developments, helping increase return on investment today while protecting that investment over time. The blade server chassis, power supplies, and midplane are capable of handling future servers with even greater processing capacity; future, higher-power CPUs; and future 40 Gigabit Ethernet standards that are expected to bring a total of 80 Gbps of bandwidth to each half-width blade server.
System Overview
From a high-level perspective, the Cisco Unified Computing System consists of one or two Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects and one or more Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis populated with Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. Cisco UCS Manager is embedded in the fabric interconnects, and it supports all server chassis as a single, redundant management domain.
Each chassis requires at least one 10 Gigabit unified fabric connection to a Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect. A maximum configuration would occupy all 40 fixed ports of a redundant pair of Cisco UCS 6140XP Fabric Interconnects with 40 blade server chassis and a total of up to 320 blade servers. A typical configuration would have 2 to 4 unified fabric connections from each chassis to each of an active-active pair of switches.
For example, Figure 2 illustrates 36 blade server chassis connected to an active-active pair of fabric interconnects that support failover. Uplinks from the two fabric interconnects deliver LAN traffic to the LAN aggregation or core layer and SAN traffic through native Fibre Channel to either of SAN A or SAN B.
Figure 3 shows the components that make up the Cisco Unified Computing System:
● The unified fabric is supported by Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects. The figure shows a Cisco UCS 6120XP Fabric Interconnect with 20 fixed ports and one expansion module slot.
● Cisco UCS Manager runs within the two Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects and manages the system as a single, unified, management domain. The management software is deployed in a clustered active-passive configuration so that the management plane remains intact even through the failure of an interconnect.
● The unified fabric is extended to each of up to 40 blade chassis through up to two Cisco UCS 2100 Series Fabric Extenders per blade chassis, each supporting up to four unified fabric connections. Each chassis must have at least one connection to a parent Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect.
● Up to eight Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers can be installed in a Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis. The chassis supports half-width and full-width blades. Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers use Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors that deliver intelligent performance, automated energy efficiency, and flexible virtualization.
● Transparent access to the unified fabric is provided by one of three types of network adapters in a mezzanine card form factor optimized for different purposes: a virtual interface card that incorporates Cisco VN-Link technology and up to 128 virtual interface devices configured dynamically, converged network adapters (CNAs) that provide a fixed number of Ethernet and fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connections and are compatible with existing Fibre Channel driver stacks, and a network interface designed to deliver efficient, high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
● Cisco Extended Memory Technology in the Cisco UCS B250 M1 Extended Memory Blade Server expands the memory footprint available to two-socket x86 servers. The extended memory blade server can support up to 384 GB of DDR3 memory with up to 48 industry-standard DIMMs.
Cisco UCS Manager
Data centers have become complex environments with a proliferation of management points. From a network perspective, the access layer has fragmented, with traditional access-layer switches, switches in blade servers, and software switches used in virtualization software all having separate feature sets and management paradigms. Most of today's blade systems have separate power and environmental management modules, adding cost and management complexity. Ethernet NICs and Fibre Channel HBAs, whether installed in blade systems or rack-mount servers, require configuration and firmware updates. Blade and rack-mount server firmware must be maintained, and BIOS settings must be managed for consistency. As a result, data center environments have become more difficult and costly to maintain, while security and performance may be less than desired. Change is the norm in data centers, but the combination of x86 server architectures and the older deployment paradigm makes change difficult:
● In fixed environments in which servers run OS and application software stacks, rehosting software on different servers as needed for scaling and load management is difficult to accomplish. I/O devices and their configuration, network configurations, firmware, and BIOS settings all must be configured manually to move software from one server to another, adding delays and introducing the possibility of errors in the process. Typically, these environments deploy fixed spare servers already configured to meet peak workload needs. Most of the time these servers are either idle or highly underutilized, raising both capital and operating costs.
● Virtual environments inherit all the drawbacks of fixed environments, and more. The fragmentation of the access layer makes it difficult to track virtual machine movement and to apply network policies to virtual machines to protect security, improve visibility, support per-virtual machine QoS, and maintain I/O connectivity. Virtualization offers significant benefits; however, it adds more complexity.
Programmatically Deploying Server Resources
Cisco UCS Manager provides centralized management capabilities, creates a unified management domain, and serves as the central nervous system of the Cisco Unified Computing System. Cisco UCS Manager is embedded device-management software that manages the system from end to end as a single logical entity through an intuitive GUI, CLI, or XML API. Cisco UCS Manager implements role- and policy-based management using service profiles and templates. This construct improves IT productivity and business agility. Now infrastructure can be provisioned in minutes instead of days, shifting IT's focus from maintenance to strategic initiatives.
Dynamic Provisioning with Service Profiles
Cisco Unified Computing System resources are abstract in the sense that their identity, I/O configuration, MAC addresses and WWNs, firmware versions, BIOS boot order, and network attributes (including QoS settings, ACLs, pin groups, and threshold policies) all are programmable using a just-in-time deployment model. The manager stores this identity, connectivity, and configuration information in service profiles that reside on the Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect. A service profile can be applied to any resource to provision it with the characteristics required to support a specific software stack. As Figure 4 shows, a service profile allows server and network definitions to move within the management domain, enabling flexibility in the use of system resources.
Service profile templates allow different classes of resources to be defined and applied to a number of resources, each with its own unique identities assigned from predetermined pools. The same management techniques apply whether the server is physical, or whether it is a virtual machine directly connected to one or more of the 128 virtual devices provided by the Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card.
Role-Based Administration and Multi-Tenancy Support
The UCS Manager offers role-based management that helps organizations make more efficient use of their limited administrator resources. Cisco UCS Manager allows organizations to maintain IT disciplines while improving teamwork, collaboration, and overall effectiveness. Server, network, and storage administrators maintain responsibility and accountability for their domain policies within a single integrated management environment. Compute infrastructure can now be provisioned without the time-consuming manual coordination between multiple disciplines previously required. Roles and privileges in the system can be easily modified and new roles quickly created.
Administrators focus on defining policies needed to provision compute infrastructure and network connectivity. Administrators can collaborate on strategic architectural issues, and implementation of basic server configuration can now be automated. Cisco UCS Manager supports multi-tenant service providers and enterprise data centers serving internal clients as separate business entities. The system can be logically partitioned and allocated to different clients or customers to administer as their own.
Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects
A primary goal in today's data centers is to equip each server with redundant Ethernet NICs and Fibre Channel HBAs for uninterrupted access to both network and storage resources. For access to Fibre Channel storage, this requires a redundant, parallel infrastructure that includes HBAs, costly fiber transceivers, and delicate cabling from each server to SAN access-layer switches. All these components must be purchased, configured, maintained, powered, and cooled. This complexity adds to mounting capital and operating costs in the data center. Indeed, the cost of this redundant infrastructure often limits the capability of providing uniform storage access to every server in the data center. This is a significant limitation as the full benefits of virtual machine portability for high availability and load balancing can generally be exploited only by servers with access to shared storage.
Unified Fabric Interconnects
Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects is a family of line-rate, low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco DCE, and FCoE interconnect switches that consolidate I/O at the system level. Based on the same switching technology as the Cisco Nexus™ 5000 Series Switches, the Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects provide the additional features and management capabilities that make up the core of the Cisco Unified Computing System.
The fabric interconnects supply a unified fabric that connects every server in the system though wire-once 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE downlinks and flexible 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 1/2/4-Gbps Fibre Channel uplinks (Figure 5). Out-of-band management, including switch redundancy, is supported through dedicated management and clustering ports. The interconnects feature front-to-back cooling, redundant front-plug fans and power supplies, and rear cabling that facilitates efficient cooling and serviceability. Typically deployed in active-active redundant pairs, the fabric interconnects provide uniform access to both networks and storage, eliminating the barriers to deploying a fully virtualized environment based on a flexible, programmable pool of resources.
The fabric interconnects consolidate I/O at the rack level, supporting traffic between the blade chassis and the interconnects over a low-cost, low-latency, Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus (SFP+) direct-attach 10 Gigabit copper link or over a 10 Gigabit optical link. While operating systems see the Ethernet and Fibre Channel devices that they expect to access in a traditional server environment, the physical implementation uses a single physical link. Fibre Channel traffic can be transferred to native Fibre Channel networks through expansion modules providing Fibre Channel connectivity.
Cisco DCE features enhance management and performance of individual traffic streams over a single network link. IEEE 802.1Qbb standard Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) allows management of separate traffic streams so that, for example, a lossless class can be created to support storage traffic without affecting the way that standard IP network traffic is managed. IEEE 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection shapes the allocation of bandwidth to traffic classes; it can be used, for example, to dedicate network bandwidth to storage traffic. These features enhance management of FCoE and iSCSI protocols.
Appearance as a Single System
The fabric interconnects make the entire management domain appear as a single system to upstream Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches. This feature dramatically simplifies Ethernet Layer 2 management and Fibre Channel network configuration, reducing cost while increasing performance by supporting active-active network uplinks with switch-managed failover in the event of a link outage.
This simplification is accomplished using both Ethernet and Fibre Channel end-host modes, which eliminates Spanning Tree Protocol and instead pins the MAC addresses and WWNs for both physical and virtual servers at the uplink interfaces. This approach gives the interconnect complete control over the unified fabric connecting it to servers and allows greater utilization of uplink port bandwidth through the use of active-active Ethernet uplinks.
Virtualization Optimization
The Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects support Cisco VN-Link architecture. Cisco VN-Link supports policy-based virtual machine connectivity, network properties that move with virtual machines, and a consistent operational model for both physical and virtual environments.
Long-Term Data Center Cabling Strategy
The Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric interconnects support a long-term data center cabling strategy that uses copper interconnects for intra-rack and intra-pod cabling with fiber in data center overhead cable trays.
The strategy begins with the uses of SPF+ direct-attach 10 Gigabit copper cabling between the blade chassis and fabric interconnects. This low-cost, low-latency product is ideal for supporting the numerous, short-distance connections between blade chassis and their parent interconnects.
Fiber is the most common interconnect for longer runs within the data center. Use of fiber in overhead cable trays allows a relatively small number of cables to be run to each rack position in a data center, with the cables used for different purposes over time. Fiber offers greater investment protection over time than copper connections because nearly every advancement in interconnect speed is implemented in fiber first. Thus, data centers running fiber in overhead cable trays are better prepared to support future LAN and SAN speeds.
Cisco UCS 2100 Series Fabric Extenders
The proliferation of switches in traditional blade systems fragments the access layer by adding another layer of switching. These switches add to the capital cost of the blade systems while they increase management cost and complexity. This cost and complexity increases with each chassis added to the data center. In addition, blade systems typically introduce their own branded switches with their own unique feature sets, making coordination of network configuration and consistent policy enforcement difficult to achieve across servers and chassis. This increases complexity in virtualized environments as virtual machines move from one server to another.
The Cisco UCS 2104XP Fabric Extender brings the I/O fabric into the blade server chassis and supports up to four 10-Gbps connections between blade servers and the parent fabric interconnect, simplifying diagnostics, cabling, and management. The fabric extender multiplexes and forwards all traffic using a cut-through architecture over one to four 10-Gbps unified fabric connections. All traffic is passed to the parent fabric interconnect, where network profiles are managed efficiently and effectively by the fabric interconnects. Each of up to two fabric extenders per blade server chassis has eight 10GBASE-KR connections to the blade chassis midplane, with one connection to each fabric extender from each of the chassis' eight half slots (Figure 6). This configuration gives each half-width blade server access to each of two 10-Gbps unified fabric connections for high throughput and redundancy.
The use of a fabric extender is another example of the radical simplification that characterizes the Cisco Unified Computing System. The fabric extender removes the need for independently managed blade chassis-resident switches to serve as an intermediate access layer. It enables the fabric interconnect to provide all access-layer switching needs for the connected servers, simplifying management and reducing costs.
Physically, each fabric extender resides in the blade chassis and connects to the midplane. Logically, the fabric extender acts as a distributed line card and is thus an integrated part of the switch management domain controlled by Cisco UCS Manager. The fabric extender maintains no state, instead receiving its firmware and configuration directly from the parent switch. With the switch and fabric extender firmware delivered and installed as a single unit, there is no risk of incompatibility between firmware versions.
Additional Fabric Extender Functions
In addition to supporting the data plane, the Cisco UCS 2104XP Series Fabric Extender incorporates a chassis management controller that interfaces with all the blade chassis physical components, including power supplies, fans, and temperature sensors. The fabric extender also connects to each blade's management port for management, monitoring, and firmware updating. Thus, management modules are not separate components that need to be purchased.
The benefits of the fabric extender design include the following:
● Scalability: With up to four 10-Gbps uplinks per fabric extender, network connectivity can be scaled to meet increased workload demands simply by configuring more uplinks to carry the additional traffic.
● High availability: Chassis configured with two fabric extenders can provide a highly available network environment.
● Reliability: The fabric extender manages traffic flow from network adapters through the fabric extender and onto the unified fabric. The fabric extender helps create a lossless fabric from the adapter to the fabric interconnect by dynamically throttling the flow of traffic from network adapters into the network.
● Manageability: The fabric extender model extends the access layer without increasing complexity or points of management, freeing administrative staff to focus more on strategic than tactical issues. Because the fabric extender also manages blade chassis components and monitors environmental conditions, fewer points of management are needed, and cost is reduced.
● Virtualization optimization: The fabric extender supports Cisco VN-Link architecture. Its integration with VN-Link features in other Cisco UCS components such as the fabric interconnect and network adapters enables virtualization-related benefits including virtual machine-based policy enforcement, mobility of network properties, better visibility, and easier problem diagnosis in virtualized environments.
● Investment protection: The modular nature of the fabric extender allows future development of equivalent modules with different bandwidth or connectivity characteristics, protecting investments in blade server chassis.
● Cost savings: The fabric extender technology allows the cost of the unified network to be accrued incrementally, helping reduce costs in times of limited budgets. The alternative is to implement and fund a large, fixed-configuration fabric infrastructure long before the capacity is required.
Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis
Most blade chassis increase management complexity with per-chassis management modules and chassis-resident LAN and SAN switches. In contrast, the Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis is logically part of the parent interconnects, creating a single, coherent management domain. Server management is handled by the fabric interconnect, while I/O and network management is extended to every chassis and blade server. Basing the I/O infrastructure on a unified fabric allows the Cisco Unified Computing System to have a simple and streamlined chassis yet offer a comprehensive set of I/O options. The result is a chassis that has only five basic components. All components but the midplane are hot pluggable and user serviceable (Figure 7):
● The physical chassis with passive midplane and active environmental monitoring circuitry
● Four power-supply bays with power entry in the rear, and redundant-capable, hot-swappable power supply units accessible from the front panel
● Eight hot-swappable fan trays, each with two fans
● Two fabric extender slots accessible from the back panel
● Eight blade server slots accessible from the front panel
The blade server chassis has flexible partitioning with removable dividers to handle two blade server form factors:
● Half-width blade servers have access to power and two 10GBASE-KR connections, one to each fabric extender slot.
● Full-width blade servers connect to power and two connections to each fabric extender.
Blade Chassis Designed for the Future
The blade server chassis is built to support blade servers with some of the most powerful x86-architecture processors available today. The chassis is designed to support even more powerful blade servers and network technology in the future through the following features:
● Four N+1 and N+N 2500-watt (W) grid-redundant power supplies are designed for 92 percent efficiency and to deliver high efficiency at low power draws. The power supplies are also designed with headroom to support future blade servers configured with processors that may draw up to 130W each.
● The simplified design results in a midplane that is 63 percent open. Air passes in a straight line from front to back, reducing dead zones and turbulence that can cause hot spots and inefficiency. This design supports the airflow needed to cool future blade servers with higher heat dissipation requirements.
● The midplane is designed with future needs in mind, with support for up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth per link.
Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
The x86 architecture has essentially become the standard in enterprise data centers because of its widespread availability, low cost, and software support. Software including Microsoft Windows, Linux, variants of the UNIX operating system, and virtualization software including VMware ESX Server all run on x86 architecture servers. Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers are designed for compatibility, performance, energy efficiency, large memory footprints, manageability, and unified I/O connectivity:
● Compatibility: Each Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server is designed around two multicore Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors, DDR3 memory, and an I/O bridge. Each blade server's front panel provides direct access for video, two USB, and console connections.
● Performance: Cisco's blade servers use the Intel Xeon 5500 Series, Intel's next-generation server processors, which deliver intelligent performance, automated energy efficiency, and flexible virtualization. Intel Turbo Boost Technology automatically boosts processing power through increased frequency and use of hyperthreading to deliver high performance when workloads demand and thermal conditions permit. Intel Virtualization Technology provides best-in-class support for virtualized environments, including hardware support for direct connections between virtual machines and physical I/O devices.
● Energy efficiency: Most workloads vary over time. Some workloads are bursty on a moment-by-moment basis, while others have predictable daily, weekly, or monthly cycles. Intel Intelligent Power Technology monitors the CPU utilization and automatically reduces energy consumption by putting processor cores into a low-power state based on real-time workload characteristics.
● Large-memory-footprint support: As each processor generation delivers even more power to applications, the demand for memory capacity to balance CPU performance increases as well. The widespread use of virtualization increases memory demands even further due to the need to run multiple OS instances on the same server. Cisco blade servers with Cisco Extended Memory Technology can support up to 384 GB per blade.
● Manageability: The Cisco Unified Computing System is managed as a cohesive system. Blade servers are designed to be configured and managed by Cisco UCS Manager, which can access and update blade firmware, BIOS settings, and RAID controller settings from the parent Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnect. Environmental parameters are also monitored by Cisco UCS Manager, reducing the number of points of management.
● Unified I/O: Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers are designed to support up to two network adapters. This design can reduce the number of adapters, cables, and access-layer switches by as much as half because it eliminates the need for multiple parallel infrastructure for both LAN and SAN at the server, chassis, and rack levels. This design results in reduced capital and operating expenses through lower administrative overhead and power and cooling requirements.
Two Blade Server Offerings
The Cisco Unified Computing System is announced with two blade server offerings (Figure 8):
● The Cisco UCS B200 M1 Blade Server is a half-width, two-socket blade server. The system uses two Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors, up to 96 GB of DDR3 memory, two optional hot-swappable small form factor (SFF) serial attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives, and a single mezzanine connector for up to 20 Gbps of I/O throughput. The server balances simplicity, performance, and density for production-level virtualization and other mainstream data center workloads.
● Cisco UCS B250 M1 Extended Memory Blade Server is a full-width, two-socket blade server featuring Cisco Extended Memory Technology. The system supports two Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors, up to 384 GB of DDR3 memory, two optional SFF SAS disk drives, and two mezzanine connections for up to 40 Gbps of I/O throughput. The server increases performance and capacity for demanding virtualization and large-data-set workloads with greater memory capacity and throughput.
Cisco Extended Memory Technology
Modern CPUs with built-in memory controllers support a limited number of memory channels and slots per CPU. The need for virtualization software to run multiple OS instances demands large amounts of memory, and that, combined with the fact that CPU performance is outstripping memory performance, can lead to memory bottlenecks. Even some traditional nonvirtualized applications demand large amounts of main memory: database management system performance can be improved dramatically by caching database tables in memory, and modeling and simulation software can benefit from caching more of the problem state in memory.
To obtain a larger memory footprint, most IT organizations are forced to upgrade to larger, more expensive, four-socket servers. CPUs that can support four-socket configurations are typically more expensive, require more power, and entail higher licensing costs.
Cisco Extended Memory Technology expands the capabilities of CPU-based memory controllers by logically changing the geometry of main memory while still using standard DDR3 memory. The technology makes every four DIMM slots in the expanded memory blade server appear to the CPU's memory controller as a single DIMM that is four times the size (Figure 9). For example, using standard DDR3 DIMMs, the technology makes four 8-GB DIMMS appear as a single 32-GB DIMM. This patented technology allows the CPU to access more industry-standard memory than ever before in a two-socket server:
● For memory-intensive environments, data centers can better balance the ratio of CPU power to memory and install larger amounts of memory without having the expense and energy waste of moving to four-socket servers simply to have a larger memory capacity. With a larger main-memory footprint, CPU utilization can improve because of fewer disk waits on page-in and other I/O operations, making more effective use of capital investments and more conservative use of energy.
● For environments that need significant amounts of main memory but which do not need a full 384 GB, smaller-sized DIMMs can be used in place of 8-GB DIMMs, with resulting cost savings: eight 1-GB DIMMS are typically less expensive than one 8-GB DIMM.
Cisco UCS Network Adapters
With traditional rack-mount and blade servers, I/O is generally an immutable part of server configuration. Changing I/O configuration generally requires powering down the chassis, installing different I/O devices, and then reconfiguring the operating system or hypervisor to access them, all of which requires manual intervention and results in application downtime. Even after this downtime, the fact that MAC addresses and WWNs may have changed often causes licensing problems.
The Cisco Unified Computing System solves these problems and facilitates highly dynamic, virtualized environments with three main technologies:
● The unified fabric supports a "wire once" cabling model in which a server's I/O characteristics can change without the need to touch the system's cabling. The unified fabric reduces costs by eliminating the need for multiple sets of adapters, cables, and switches for LANs, SANs, and high-performance computing networks.
● Cisco UCS Manager specifies server I/O characteristics using service profiles that make moving or rehosting a physical or virtualized environment as simple as applying the service profile to a new blade server and rebooting the environment on the new server. Service profile templates can be used to provision one or many servers having the same I/O characteristics but unique identifiers, allowing the system to scale on demand.
● Three types network adapters can be used to closely match server I/O capabilities with an organization's business requirements:
- A virtual interface card optimized for virtualization helps unleash the full power of the Cisco Unified Computing System by provisioning on demand any combination of up to 128 NICs and HBAs to the host operating system or hypervisor (8 of these interfaces are reserved for use by the system). Both the type (Ethernet or Fibre Channel) and the identities (MAC address and WWN) are provisioned dynamically through service profiles.
- Converged network adapters optimized for compatibility provide complete transparency by presenting a pair of Ethernet NICs and a pair Fibre Channel HBAs to the OS, allowing the continued use of data center standards that involve the use of Emulex or QLogic HBAs.
- A network adapter optimized for efficiency and high performance provides dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs and is ideal for environments using NAS and iSCSI storage.
Cisco UCS network adapters are designed to fit into Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers using a mezzanine card form factor. The adapters have two unified fabric connections on the midplane, one reaching each of the two fabric extender slots, enabling even half-width blade servers to connect to a redundant network fabric, enhancing bandwidth utilization and availability.
Efficient, High-Performance Ethernet with the Cisco UCS 82598KR-CI 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
The Cisco UCS 82598KR-CI 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter is designed to deliver efficient, high-performance Ethernet connectivity. This adapter uses Intel silicon to present two 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs to the peripheral component interconnect (PCI) device tree, with each NIC connected to one of the two fabric extender slots on the chassis (Figure 10). Like all the mezzanine cards available for the Cisco Unified Computing System, this card supports the Cisco DCE features needed to manage multiple independent network traffic streams over the same link. The adapter's MAC addresses are just-in-time configured by Cisco UCS Manager, and the adapter is designed for:
● Network-intensive workloads, such as web servers, in which all content is accessed over Network File System (NFS) or iSCSI protocols
● Environments in which efficiency and performance are important considerations
Compatibility with Cisco UCS M71KR-E Emulex and UCS M71KR-Q QLogic Converged Network Adapters
For organizations needing compatibility with existing data center practices that rely on Emulex or QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs, the Cisco UCS M71KR-E Emulex and UCS M71KR-Q QLogic Converged Network Adapters provide compatibility with interfaces from Emulex and QLogic, respectively. These CNAs use Intel silicon to present two 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs and either two Emulex or two QLogic HBAs to the PCI device tree. The operating system sees two NICs and two HBAs, and the existence of the unified fabric is completely transparent. A Cisco application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) multiplexes one Ethernet and one Fibre Channel traffic stream onto each of the two midplane connections to the fabric extender slots (Figure 11). These CNAs are most appropriate for:
● Organizations that want to continue to use Emulex or QLogic drivers in the Cisco Unified Computing System
● Organizations that want to streamline the qualification process for new Fibre Channel hardware; use of standard HBA silicon allows use of HBA vendor-provided drivers
● Both traditional physical and virtualized environments
Virtualization with the Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card
The full benefits of the Cisco Unified Computing System are delivered through the use of Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Cards in blade servers. This card presents up to 128 virtual interfaces to the PCI device tree in compliance with PCI Express (PCIe) standards (Figure 12). Eight of the 128 virtual interfaces are reserved for system use.
Unlike other network adapters, in which only the identity of each NIC and HBA is programmable through Cisco UCS Manager, both the type and the identity of each of the Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card's virtual NICs are programmable. Any combination of Ethernet NICs and Fibre Channel HBAs and their corresponding MAC addresses and WWNs can be programmed onto the card, making the I/O architecture of the server programmable using a dynamic provisioning model.
This card, combined with service profiles, supports a very powerful and flexible, wire-once environment. The service profile defines virtual NICs when it is applied to the server. For example, a Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card could be configured to have four Ethernet NICs supporting network-attached storage (NAS) connections with one service profile, and an FCoE card with four Fibre Channel HBAs and six Ethernet NICs when the next service profile is applied.
The programmable nature of the virtual interface card makes it ideal for:
● Service provider and enterprise data centers needing the utmost flexibility in the way they deploy server resources
● Companies needing strong investment protection: one adapter can satisfy both Ethernet and Fibre Channel connectivity requirements, and a single I/O interface can be deployed onto systems throughout the data center
● Fixed server environments in which the capability to rehost or scale applications is needed
● Virtualized environments in which:
- Each virtual NIC can appear as a physical NIC to virtual machines, eliminating the overhead of the virtual switch
- Per-virtual machine network policies need to be applied, including security and QoS
- The I/O performance boost achieved through pass-through switching is important
Outstanding Flexibility in Virtualized Environments
The existence of up to 128 programmable virtual devices gives virtualized environments a sufficient number of devices to allow the hypervisor to assign devices directly to virtual machines. In the ultimate model, each virtual machine owns its own physical devices, eliminating the need to use CPU cycles to emulate hardware network switches, and eliminating the overhead of hypervisor intervention for each virtual machine I/O operation. The coordination between virtualization software and the Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects supports movement of virtual machines between servers and chassis, with devices and network profiles dynamically configured on the destination server.
The virtual devices provided by the Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card can be put to use in virtualized environments in three ways. The approaches are illustrated through the ways in which the virtual machines in Figure 13 interface with virtual devices. Each successive approach provides more flexibility and has lower overhead, helping increase the use of resources and increase ROI.
● The traditional approach, illustrated by VM 1, is to represent physical devices as virtual machine NICs (VMNICs), and virtual devices in virtual machines as virtual NICs (vNICs), connecting the two with a virtual switch (vSwitch). This approach has the overhead and management complexity and inherent inefficiency of network switching implemented in the hypervisor. Nevertheless, the Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card can support this traditional configuration, allowing the continued use of this virtual network model
In addition to the traditional approach, the system supports the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series virtual machine access switches. The Cisco Nexus 1000V Series is an intelligent software switch implementation for VMware ESX Server environments. Running inside VMware ESX Server, the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series supports VN-Link server virtualization technology, providing
- Policy-based virtual machine connectivity: a scalable mechanism to provision virtual machine networking
- Mobile virtual machine security and network policy: persistent policies that follow the virtual machines as they move between servers
- A nondisruptive operational model for server virtualization and networking teams through full integration with the Cisco CLI, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and XML API with VMware VirtualCenter
- Expanded scalability, with up to 256 virtual interfaces per server
● The pass-through switching approach, facilitated by the availability of a large number of programmable devices, directly connects vNICs with VMNICs. This approach, illustrated by VM 2, reduces the overhead and management complexity of implementing switching in software. It still requires a small amount of hypervisor intervention for each I/O operation.
Creating such a configuration is straightforward due to the coordination of activities between Cisco UCS Manager and VMware Infrastructure software. An administrator creates a port profile using Cisco UCS Manager. Cisco UCS Manager exports the profile to VMware VirtualCenter, where it is seen as a port group in the VMware context. When the virtual machine is deployed to the hypervisor, the system recognizes the port group as a port profile and configures a vNIC to match the profile's definition.
● The hypervisor bypass approach links physical devices directly to virtual machines. As virtualization vendors begin to implement this technology, virtual machines can directly access physical devices, bypassing the hypervisor entirely and reducing CPU overhead. The large number of devices that can be provided by the Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card, plus Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O, enable the allocation of one or more NICs to each virtual machine on a server. This future configuration is illustrated by VM 3.
Virtual Link Movement with Virtual Machine Migration
Virtual machine movement is facilitated at the network level by the VN-Link capabilities of Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects. These switches virtualize the network links, allowing a flexible, many-to-one mapping of virtual links to physical links.
When a virtual machine moves between physical servers, the hypervisor triggers a process similar to that described for VM 3. The process establishes the device profile required by the virtual machine on the destination server. When the server-to-server migration is complete, the virtual machine remains connected to exactly the same devices with the same identity.
A network link from a virtual device is connected to a virtual port within the switch, as illustrated by the blue dotted line in Figure 13. A virtual port has all the same characteristics as a physical port except that its binding to a physical port is ephemeral and can change as the corresponding virtual machine moves between physical switch ports. Thus, all the important network profiles that manage traffic flow, ACLs, QoS, bandwidth, and other characteristics move automatically as the virtual port's binding is changed from one physical port to another.
The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system designed to reduce TCO and increase business agility. The system integrates a low-latency, lossless, 10-Gbps unified fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers. The system is an integrated, scalable, multichassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain.
The system's architecture enhances the portability of both physical and virtual machines with server identity, LAN and SAN addressing, I/O configu¬rations, firmware, and network connectivity profiles that dynamically provision and integrate server and network resources. Defining hardware properties and deploying systems with service profiles creates a dynamic and stateless environment that can be adapted to meet rapidly changing business requirements, including just-in-time deployment of new computing resources, and simplified, reliable movement of traditional and virtual workloads. The system improves availability, security, performance, and business agility through its integrated design, helping deliver:
● Increased IT staff productivity and business agility through just-in-time provisioning and mobility support for both virtualized and nonvirtualized environments
● Reduced TCO at the platform, site, and organizational levels through infrastructure consolidation
● A cohesive, integrated system that is managed, serviced, and tested as a whole
● Scalability through a design for up to 320 discrete servers and thousands of virtual machines, and the capability to scale I/O bandwidth to match demand
● Open industry standards supported by a partner ecosystem of industry leaders
● A system that can scale to meet future data center needs for computing power, memory footprints, and I/O bandwidth; it can grow as the industry moves to new processors and standards such as 40 Gigabit Ethernet
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Q: Can I apply my ticket admission to a membership?
A: Yes. If you enjoy your visit at the Rock Hall you may apply your admission to the price of a membership and receive a discounted rate. However, you may only apply your ticket on the day of your visit. *Final price of membership depends on the level of membership purchased.*
Q: Can I get free admission the day I sign up for a membership?
A: Yes. From the day you purchase any level of membership you will have unlimited, free access to the Museum for a full year. In addition to one year of free admission, each level of membership includes different benefits.
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A: Yes. Each level of membership is tax deductible. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization. The money goes towards preserving the history and legacy of Rock and Roll as well as educational programs funded by the Rock Hall. You will receive confirmation of the tax-deductible portion in the mail within 10-12 business days.
Q: What is a gift of Membership? How can I purchase one?
A: Memberships make excellent gifts and the benefits last all year. Any level of membership may be purchased as a gift. You can purchase the gift through our online Gift of Membership option. In the "Bill To" section at checkout, please enter your name and in the ship to section, enter the recipient information. If you purchase a gift and would like to confirm the transaction so that we can recognize you in the welcome letter to the gift recipient, please contact us at 216-515-8425 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Q: If I sign up for a membership at the Museum, how many people are allowed free admission on the day of purchase?
A: The number of guests who receive free admission relies on your level of membership. Additional tickets may be purchased onsite at the Museum or online.
- $50 Rocker Level: You will be granted admission on the day of purchase.
- $75 Duet Rocker Level: You and a guest will be granted admission on the day of purchase.
- $140 Roller Level: You, the co-member and your children (or you and your three guests) will be granted admission on the day of purchase.
- $250 Inductee Level: You and your three guests (or you, the co-member and your children) will be granted admission on the day of purchase.
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A: No. Memberships are non-transferrable. Only the member and/ or co-member may receive membership benefits and use the membership card.
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A: You will no longer receive membership benefits. You can renew your membership at any time by calling the membership hotline: 216-515-8425, or by visiting the Member Express Check-in located in the Museum lobby.
Q: Will I be notified if my membership expires?
A: Approximately 2 months before your membership expires you will receive a membership renewal notice by mail.
Q: Can I visit the museum on the day my membership expires?
Yes, your membership is valid through the end of the day on the date listed on your membership card. Call the membership hotline 216-515-8425 to check your expiration date or to renew.
Q: I recently became a member. When will my membership kit arrive?
A: Please allow 10 to 12 business days for delivery of your membership kit. You may gain access to the Museum before your card arrives by showing photo ID at the Member's Express Check-in and your temporary ID card.
Q: I lost my membership card. Can I still visit the Museum?
A: Yes! Visit the Member Express Check-in located in the Museum's lobby and present a valid photo ID. A membership employee will find your name in the system, check you in, and order a new membership card.
Q: My contact information has changed. Can I update it?
A: Yes, you may update your contact information by calling the membership hotline 216-515-8425 or visit the Update Membership Information page on the Rock Hall website.
Q: I signed up as a member when the Museum opened. Is my membership still valid? Am I recognized as a Charter member anywhere in the Museum?
A: Charter memberships purchased when the Museum opened expired one year after date of purchase. Those who joined when the Museum opened are recognized in the leather bound notebooks located at the Information Desk at the Museum. Call 216-515-8425 to rejoin today!
Q: I do not receive Members Only e-newsletters. How do I sign up?
A: If you provided your e-mail address when you signed up for your membership you should already receive Members Only e-newsletters. You may provide your e-mail or a second e-mail to our mailing list by updating your contact information. To update contact information please call the membership hotline: 216-515-8425 or visit the Update Membership Information page.
Q: Does the Museum share my e-mail address with anyone else?
A: No. E-mail addresses are collected for Museum use only. Giving the Museum your e-mail address enables you to receive the Members Only newsletter.
Q: Will there be Members Only events?
A: Throughout the year there will be several opportunities to purchase tickets in advance for upcoming shows and events. This information will be posted online and in the Members Only e-newsletter.
Q: I have a question that's not on this page. What should I do?
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ZF-9547: Handle 'empty' Amazon book search results
I'm using Zend_Service_Amazon to display book information, using itemSearch() to search by ISBN. Every now and then, Amazon seems to return a valid result without any data for these queries, which causes the following fatal PHP error from ZF:
Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to Zend_Service_Amazon_Item::__construct() must be an instance of DOMElement, null given, called in /home/tim/zend-framework/ZendFramework-1.10.1/library/Zend/Service/Amazon/ResultSet.php on line 111 and defined in /home/tim/zend-framework/ZendFramework-1.10.1/library/Zend/Service/Amazon/Item.php on line 118
Here's an example script, you'll need to add valid API key data:
$isbn = '0750640162'; // doesn't work
//$isbn = '0754512673'; // does work
$client = new Zend_Service_Amazon('AMAZON_API_KEY', 'UK', 'AMAZON_SECRET_KEY');
$results = $client->itemSearch(array(
'SearchIndex' => 'Books',
'Power' => 'isbn:'.$isbn,
'ResponseGroup' => 'Large,ItemAttributes,Images,EditorialReview'
$totalResults = $results->totalResults();
if ($totalResults == 1) {
var_dump($results->current()); // causes PHP fatal
There are two ISBN numbers at the top of this script. The first causes the error, the second works fine. Both of these ISBNs are perfectly valid books that are listed on amazon.co.uk.
Unfortunately the problem is intermittent. I'm getting the error consistently at the moment, but the same search was working fine last week. I have had this problem in the past with other ISBNs though, so this isn't an isolated case specific to this book.
It does seem like this is partly a problem on Amazon's side, but it would be nice if ZF could detect the invalid result and handle it gracefully, as I have no way of catching the PHP fatal.
Attached are the raw XML responses I'm currently getting from Amazon for the two ISBNs in my example script. You'll see in the failing one that the XML indicates that there was 1 result matching the search, but no s are included.
Fixed the issue and merged it with 1.10 branch (r21883)


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Soil in Southwestern Colorado was given its complexity by the changing path of the Colorado River, and vintners in Palisade boast of the "million dollar breeze" that blows out of the Book Cliffs and prevents frost during cooler growing months.
From dry to sweet, these four wineries pride themselves on making superior vino.
Canyon Wind Cellars (3907 N. River Rd., Palisade, 970-464-0888, canyonwindcellars.com) is known for its dry reds; you won't find fruity wines here.
Carlson Vineyards' (461 35 Rd., Palisade, 970-464-5554, carlsonvineyards.com) friendly atmosphere makes it one of the best spots to try the area's fruit-infused wines. The Palisade Peach varietal is especially excellent.
Mesa Park Vineyards (3321 C Rd., Palisade, 970-434-4191, mesaparkvineyards.com) was bought by a family of dreamers in 2008 and they have been perfecting their craft into some impressive cabernet francs.
Maison La Belle Vie Winery (3575 G Rd., Palisade, 970- 361-6022, maisonlabellevie.com) wins the award for "quaintest" tasting room, set back in a shady grove plays at French style as do its wines.


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The PLAYSTATION 3, PlayStation 3 or PS3, is the successor to the PlayStation 2, released on November 11, 2006 in Japan, and November 17, 2006 in North America. The PS3 is superseded by the PlayStation 4.
It features a hard drive (20GB, 40GB, 60GB, 80GB 120GB, 160GB, or 250GB depending on the model), much improved CPU, easy hard drive expansion, high definition graphics, advanced online gaming capabilities, blu-ray media, wireless "SIXAXIS" or "DUALSHOCK 3" controllers, interaction with a PlayStation Portable (PSP) system through Wi-Fi and much more. It is also the only current-generation console to offer region-free games.
Grand Theft Auto Games on PS3
- Grand Theft Auto IV (2008)
- Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City (2010)
- Grand Theft Auto V to be released in September 2013


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