Resources · Field guides

Engineering Field Guides

Reference material for engineers who design, operate, and audit production infrastructure. Architecture standards, CLI procedures, and audit frameworks — written by WUC engineers from real engagement experience, not vendor marketing.

Maintained by WUC engineering Multi-OEM coverage: Cisco, NetApp, Pure, EMC, HPE, Brocade, Dell Updated as production patterns evolve

Library status

5 guides · published

8 guides · in pipeline

5 categories · ip-networking, architecture, storage, network, compute

Real engagements · not vendor docs

Category · 2 published · 0 in draft

IP Networking

Address planning, subnet design, and dual-stack readiness for production networks.

IP NETWORKING · IPv4 ADDRESSING

IPv4 Address Analyzer — Interactive Field Guide

Interactive subnet calculator with live CIDR / dotted-quad parsing, binary visualization, and RFC 1918 classifier. Covers historical IPv4 classes, supernetting, dual-stack readiness, and includes CLI cheat sheets for show ip interface, ip route, and arp across IOS, NX-OS, and JunOS.

~12 min read WUC Engineering Published May 2026

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IP NETWORKING · IPv6 ADDRESSING

IPv6 Address Analyzer — Interactive Field Guide

Live parser for IPv6 notation with full classification per RFC 4291 (unicast scope), RFC 4193 (ULA), and RFC 6890 (special-purpose registry). Covers SLAAC vs DHCPv6, link-local fe80::/10 behavior, embedded IPv4 patterns, and the dual-stack interop checklist for production migration.

~14 min read WUC Engineering Published May 2026

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Category · 1 published · 0 in draft

Architecture & Standards

Vendor-neutral engineering reference for design, audit, and capacity decisions.

INFRASTRUCTURE · ENGINEERING REFERENCE

Enterprise Data Center Rack Architecture — A Practical Field Guide

Standards (EIA-310-E, TIA-942-C, ASHRAE TC 9.9, Uptime Institute), airflow CFM/kW math, the WUC RACK-5 audit framework, the Dual-Rack Network Redundancy Pattern, and 11 engineering diagrams covering AI density, containment ROI, PUE, and Tier availability.

~25 min read WUC Engineering Practice Published May 2026

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Category · 2 published · 5 in draft

Storage Operations

CLI references and change-control procedures for production storage fabrics.

CISCO MDS · SAN ZONING

Cisco MDS Zoning: A Field Guide for NetApp AFF Dual-Fabric Setups

CLI reference for creating zones, decommissioning hosts, and swapping HBA WWPNs during hardware replacement on Cisco MDS switches paired with NetApp AFF storage. Covers SIST best practice, show zone pending-diff safety gates, and host-side path verification on Linux, Windows, and ESXi.

~9 min read WUC Engineering Published May 2026

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CISCO MDS · NX-OS COMMAND REFERENCE

Cisco MDS NX-OS Command Reference for Production SAN Operators

130+ read-only show commands across 11 categories — switch identity, environment, system health, processes, interfaces, FLOGI, FCNS, VSAN, zoning, device-alias, fabric-binding. Each command lists what it shows, when to run it, and a production-realistic output captured from MDS 9710 directors.

~25 min read WUC Engineering Published May 2026

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In pipeline · 5 guides in draft
  • NetApp ONTAP aggregate & volume provisioning
  • Pure Storage host group + LUN setup
  • EMC VPLEX distributed device creation
  • HPE 3PAR / Primera virtual volume creation
  • Dell PowerStore volume migration
In pipeline · 1 guide coming

Network Operations

Fabric merges, zone imports, and switch configurations under change-control.

In pipeline · 1 guide in draft
  • Brocade fabric merge & zone import
In pipeline · 2 guides coming

Compute & Virtualization

Service profile deployment, datastore expansion, host commissioning under change-control.

In pipeline · 2 guides in draft
  • Cisco UCS service profile deployment
  • VMware vSphere datastore expansion under change control
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