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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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. InĀ  this diagram, the chipsets are Altos and Gatos. But where is [...]

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Tags: CISCO · FCOE

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

BIG Cisco - VMware announcement - 1:30 Pacific time

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Expect something really big in the cloud computing / datacenter 3.0 space to be announced by Cisco this afternoon.
Sadly, I have the unfortunate situation of being tagged as an insider (work in the partner community). So I have to play nice, and cannot reveal any juicy tidbits. Suffice it to say, that Jashree Ullal and [...]

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Tags: CISCO · DC3.0 · vmware