Colin McNamara – CCIE 18233 , VCP, RHCE, GCIH, GEEK

Technical reviews and articles from a CCIE with extensive experience in designing and implementing converged enterprise networks.

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Entries Tagged as 'CISCO'

Cisco EMC and VMware partneship VCE VBlocks Acadia and the Partner Ecosystem

November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Cisco EMC and VMware announced a joint partnership called the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition (VCE) . The key goal of the VCE is to accelerate customer migration to virtualization and cloud infrastructures. The Virtual Computing Environment will accomplish this in four different ways.
VBlock Infrastructure Packages

VBlock infrastructure packages are pre-configured bundles that are sized to [...]

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Tags: CISCO · EMC · VBlock

Cisco Nexus 4000 Blade Switch

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Cisco’s vision of the unified data center took another step forward today with the announcement of the Nexus 4000 series blade center switches. This switch is another step forward  in Cisco’s view of a true multiprotocol network.
What does this mean?  In Cisco’s view of the world this means supporting the transport of Fibre Channel, Fibre [...]

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Tags: CISCO · Nexus 4000

Cisco Unified Computing System Quoting and Configuration with Netformx

July 9th, 2009 · No Comments

What I would like to share today is a video guide on how to properly create a Unified Computing System (UCS)  Bill of Materials (BOM), and how to route that BOM into the appropriate ordering system.
You may notice that I am using a tool called Netformx. You may ask – since this is a Cisco [...]

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Tags: B-Series · CISCO · Cisco 2100 Fabric Extender · Cisco 6120XP · Cisco 6140XP · Cisco B Series Blades · Cisco Server Array Manager SAM · Cisco UCS B200 · Cisco UCS B250 · Cisco Unified Computing System · Cisco Unified Computing System Managerm UCSM

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