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

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Entries Tagged as 'Nexus 7000'

Cisco releases Nexus 1000V virtual switch for VMware

September 16th, 2008 · 6 Comments

This afternoon Cisco released a new member of the Nexus family of switches, the Nexus 1000V. This is the first switch to take advantage of VMware opening up their ESX and ESXi platforms to for third party network device manufacturers. This switch directly address some pretty big pain points surrounding current virtualization implementations.
The boundary between [...]

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Tags: CISCO · DC3.0 · Nexus 7000 · cloud computing · vmware

Link Round Up - L2TPv3 FCOE Trill Wounded Warriors

May 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I come accross alot of very interesting material each week, only some of which I write about. These are some links that I found interesting this week.
1. Layer 2 Tunneling Protcol (V3) static and hairpin configuration example - my buddy Rick was nerding it out in the lab and sent a great configuration doc for [...]

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Tags: CCIE · CISCO · DC3.0 · FCOE · Fibre Channel Over Ethernet · Green Data Center · MPLS · NX-OS · Nexus 7000 · Technology · certification

Featured on Network World - 20 useful sites for Cisco networking professionals

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments

This morning I was featured as #11 of 20 in Network World Magazines 20 useful sites for Cisco networking professionals. Let me say thank you to the folks at network world for mentioning my little corner of the internet, and welcome to any readers that haven’t been to my site before. I hope that you [...]

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Tags: CCDE · CCIE · CCIE Storage · NX-OS · Nexus 7000 · certification