I was new to Cisco product, tried downloading UCS(Unified Computing System) manager to have a look and feel of it but off-late got to know that we are supposed to have a FII(Fibre Interconnect) to get it installed. My thought went to "why cant there be a simulator ?", like vsim (NetApp), thank god, there was one named as UCS PE - UCS Platform Emulator. I downloaded UCSPE, however I had to run it as a VM using one of the virtualization mechanism. let it be VMware, VirtualBox. But I had only Windows-7 Desktop. So finally I was able to run and explore UCS PE and its commands and could feel what UCS Manager without actually having the h/w. Here the way...
1. UCSPE image is available at https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-52943 (just register as some user)
2. vmplayer can be downloaded from https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/7_0
If you feel the difficulty in getting UCSPE as a VM through vmplayer, write back - vishwamail@gmail.com
