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, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fabric Extender'
Cisco Nexus 4000 Blade Switch
September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, Nexus 4000
Tags: CEE·certification·CISCO·Data Center·Fabric Extender·Nexus·Nexus 4000·Nexus 7000·NX-OS·switch·Technology·UCS
Confusion about Cisco UCS pricing – Setting the Record Straight
June 13th, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, Cisco B Series Blades, Cisco UCS B200, Cisco UCS B250, Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco Unified Computing System Managerm UCSM, cloud computing, Paginated
I read an interesting article in the Channel Register written by Timothy Pricket Morgan today. In his article - Cisco California pricing revealed, $3,000 for a blade with no innards he attempts to position UCS as a horribly overpriced system where Cisco is egregiously marking up components. A pretty strong statement from his article is listed [...]
Tags: CISCO·Data Center·Fabric Extender·FCOE·FEX·Fibre Channel·hosting·Network·Power·Server·Technology·UCS·Unified Computing System·virtualization·vmware
Simplifying your Data Center with Cisco’s Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX)
January 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · CISCO, nexus 1000v, Nexus 2000, Nexus 5000, Nexus 7000, NX-OS, Unified Computing
The Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender is Cisco’s newest addition to the Nexus line of Data Center switching products. In this case, even though it is an addition to the Nexus line, the 2000 is not a switch itself. The Nexus 2000 is what is known as a Fabric Extender, which works in conjunction with the [...]
Tags: CISCO·Fabric Extender·FEX·Nexus 2000
