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

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Entries Tagged as 'NX-OS'

Cisco Nexus NX-OS and DCNM XML API’s - Cisco Live 2008

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Since I am at Cisco Live Networks all week, and I take notes anyways, i thought I would share them with you.
NX-OS / DCNM XML API Fundamental Technology
Netconf - platform for secure communication of XML data between DCNM / NX-OS and mgmt station.
XML, using clear text tags, creates a self describing API. This is necessary [...]

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Tags: CISCO · DC3.0 · NX-OS · Technology

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