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 5010 released

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments

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 gig  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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Humor inside the Nexus 5000 switch fabric architecture

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

I was putting together some presentations this morning and found a joke hidden inside the Nexus 5000 switch fabric architecture. Can you find it?

If you are from the San Francisco bay area you will recognize the towns of Los Altos and Los Gatos. In  this diagram, the chipsets are Altos and Gatos. But where is [...]

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Cisco releases Nexus 1000V virtual switch for VMware

September 16th, 2008 · 6 Comments

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 between [...]

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Tags: CISCO · DC3.0 · Nexus 7000 · cloud computing · vmware