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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Application Extension API notes – Cisco Live 2008
June 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · CCIE, CISCO, DC3.0, Networkers
The AXP is a open platform for the Integrated Services Router (ISR) that enables you to program in-house, custom applications that leverage packet level interfaces with the ISR platform. You can choose to install either a daughtercard (AIM-102) or a network module platform. Where would you use these ? You want your custom application to [...]
Tags: AXP Application Extension API·C·CISCO·Cisco Linux·cisco live·communication·daughtercard·Instances·isr·IVR·kvm·linux·NDA·Network·Networkers·packet·paravirtualization·reconfigure·Router·virtualization
