HP Flex-10 Design, Plan, Implement, Test

Before design phase of VMware vSphere Infrastructure I recommend to read blog post "Understanding HP Flex-10 Mappings with VMware ESX/vSphere" to get general overview about server infrastructure and advanced  network interconnect. During design phase prepare detail test plan (aka operational verification) and test it during implementation phase. You can use blog post "Testing Scenario's VMware / HP c-Class Infrastructure" as a template for your test plan. I don't doubt that you normally test infrastructure before put it into production :-)

HP Virtual Connect for the Cisco Network Administrator

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01386629/c01386629.pdf

M. Sean McGee blog about UCS and HP Virtual Connect

Sean,
is proven SME in this area and he has really good articles about UCS and other server/networking topics ...

http://www.mseanmcgee.com/about/

Comparison of Cisco UCS Service profiles vs HP BladeSystem to manage user interface settings

http://www.mseanmcgee.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2010-08-25-Cisco-vs.-HP-Server-Identities.jpg