Colin McNamara – CCIE 18233 , VCP, EMCIE, NCDA, GEEK

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Entries Tagged as 'device contexts'

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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Cisco NX-OS 4.0 | Next Generation Internet Operating System

January 29th, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE Storage, DC3.0, IOS-NX, NX-OS

The latest product to make its way from the storage networking arena into the data center networking arena is Cisco’s new NX-OS, next generation network operating system. Cisco has taken the highly succesful MDS line of switches, and  expanded on their success by taking their core operating system – SAN-OS and expanding it to provide [...]

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Cisco Nexus 7000 DataCenter switch released – Welcome to DataCenter 3.0

January 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · CCIE Storage, CISCO, DC3.0, IOS-NX

Data Center 3.0 has arrived with Cisco’s Nexus 7000 Data Center switch. I hope I am not to sensational in saying this, but the Data Center as you know it has changed drastically. Highlights of the the Nexus 7000′s features are – 15 Terrabit per second backplane Support for 40 and 100 gig ports in [...]

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