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 5020 and 5010 FCOE video ordering guide

December 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I know that many of my readers are inside of the Cisco partner community. Every day we are not only faced with engineering complex interconnected solutions, but we are also tasked with navigating the uncharted waters of our vendor ordering systems. One good example that I will go over today is how properly order the [...]

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Tags: CISCO · Nexus 5000

Measuring and mitigating risk involved with sharing virtual infrastructure between DMZ and Internal environments

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

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: hyper-v · virtualization · vmware

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-05

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Nexus 5020 – Consolidated 10 Gig Ethernet and 4 Gig Fibre Channel: Cisco released an addition to th.. http://tinyurl.com/5ujn7c #

UPDATE  – Sorry for the RSS spam, I have been playing with twitter (and frankly am failing to see its draw) and setup twitter tools to integrate my blog with my twitter microblog. I apparently left [...]

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