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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Cisco Nexus 7000 DataCenter switch released - Welcome to DataCenter 3.0

January 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 the future
Seperate control [...]

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Tags: CCIE Storage · CISCO · DC3.0 · IOS-NX

Resume - Colin McNamara, CCIE #18233

January 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Colin McNamara, CCIE #18233 – (858) 927-4515 - colin@2cups.com
CERTIFICATIONS / ACCREDITATIONS HELD
CCIE - Cisco Systems Internetwork Expert #18233
VCP - VMware Certified Professional
TSS - Cisco Technical Solutions Specialist, Data Center
GCIH – GIAC Certified Incident Handler
CCVP - Cisco Certified Voice Professional
CSNSSS - Cisco Storage Networking Solutions Support Specialist
CSNSDS - Cisco Storage Network Solutions Design Specialist
CADCNSS [...]

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Fibre Channel over Ethernet is taking off

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Intel released open source drivers based on their current ISCSI driver implementation for Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCOE) today. For those that aren’t up to speed on FCOE, it is effectively ISCSI lite. When I say lite, I mean ISCSI without the layer 3 overhead. This will allow FCOE to leverage lower cost Ethernet [...]

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Tags: CCIE Storage · FCOE · Fibre Channel Over Ethernet · Ie · cisco router eem email scripting ccie