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 [...]
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Cisco releases Nexus 1000V virtual switch for VMware
September 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments · CISCO, cloud computing, DC3.0, Nexus 7000, vmware
Tags: blog·C·CISCO·Colin·Data Center·DESIGN·HP·linux·NDA·Network·Nexus·nexus 1000v·NX-OS·security·storage·switch·Technology·TrustSec·virtualization·vlan·vmware·vn-link
Measuring and mitigating risk involved with sharing virtual infrastructure between DMZ and Internal environments
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · hyper-v, virtualization, vmware
Ivan Pepelnjak over at IOS Hints and Tricks wrote a post about DMZ VLAN leaking that got me thinking. He writes about “the VLAN leaking myth” and how it encourages clients to utilize physically separate network infrastructure in the DMZ’s. Now first things first, I wouldn’t call VLAN leaking a myth. At one time it [...]
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I’ll be at Cisco Live 2008 (networkers) in Orlando all week
June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE, certification, CISCO, cisco live 2008, Networkers, Uncategorized
It’s that time of year again, time to meet, drink, collaborate and learn. It’s time for Networkers (officially Cisco Live 2008). For some of us that means taking detailed notes all week long, for others it means almost getting arrested for climbing the totem pole outside of the house of blues (you know who you [...]
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