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

Technical reviews and articles from a CCIE with extensive experience in designing and implementing converged enterprise networks.

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Entries Tagged as 'FCOE'

Cisco Nexus 5010 released

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Cisco just released a little brother to the Nexus 5020, the 5010. The 5010 provides the same features as the 5020, but in a 20 port x 10 gigĀ  1ru form factor with one expansion slot.

The coolest thing about this chassis is its price. You can get 20 ports of line rate lossless frabric 10 [...]

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Tags: CISCO·FCOE·Nexus·nexus 5010

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 was [...]

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Tags: blog·breach·business context·C·CISCO·Colin·compromise·Data Center·DESIGN·device contexts·enhancements·FCOE·HP·hyper-v·Instances·linux·NDA·Network·network infrastructure·Nexus 5020·passed·Pic·risk risk·san·security·storage·switch·threat·TrustSec·virtual device·virtualization·vlan·vmware·vulnerability

Link Round Up – L2TPv3 FCOE Trill Wounded Warriors

May 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments · CCIE, CISCO, DC3.0, FCOE, Fibre Channel Over Ethernet, Green Data Center, MPLS, NX-OS, Nexus 7000, Technology, certification

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: C·CCIE·CISCO·DESIGN·FCOE·L2TPv3·MPLS·NDA·Network·Provider·Rbridge·Root Kit·Router·san·security·service provider·storage·switch·Trill

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