This is part 2 of the following blog series:

• My first FlexPod! (Part 1 – Introduction)
• My first FlexPod! (Part 2 – Hardware Overview)
• My first FlexPod! (Part 3 – Hardware Configuration)
• My first FlexPod! (Part 4 – Quality of Services)
• My first FlexPod! (Part 5 – Hyper-V Cluster)
• My first FlexPod! (Part 6 – System Center)

Hardware Overview:

If you have read part 1 you should now know a bit more about a Cisco FlexPod. As mentioned, a Cisco FlexPod is a reference architecture and can be combined with any hardware you want, which makes is very flexible and scalable. With the budget at that time we started with the following hardware infrastructure:

Altough this pictures might look nice to you, it is quite useless if you don’t know what it is all about. So I have to give you some detailed information about the hardware and it’s capabilities. I am afraid this is going to be a long blog. But hey, let’s go for it! 🙂  [Read more…]