Colin McNamara – CCIE 18233 , VCP, EMCIE, NCDA, GEEK

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Entries Tagged as 'NX-OS'

Cisco Nexus 4000 Blade Switch

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, Nexus 4000

Cisco’s vision of the unified data center took another step forward today with the announcement of the Nexus 4000 series blade center switches. This switch is another step forward  in Cisco’s view of a true multiprotocol network. What does this mean?  In Cisco’s view of the world this means supporting the transport of Fibre Channel, [...]

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Tags: CEE·certification·CISCO·Data Center·Fabric Extender·Nexus·Nexus 4000·Nexus 7000·NX-OS·switch·Technology·UCS

Cisco releases Nexus 1000V virtual switch for VMware

September 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments · CISCO, cloud computing, DC3.0, Nexus 7000, vmware

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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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

Cisco Nexus NX-OS and DCNM XML API’s – Cisco Live 2008

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments · CISCO, DC3.0, NX-OS, Technology

Since I am at Cisco Live Networks all week, and I take notes anyways, i thought I would share them with you. NX-OS / DCNM XML API Fundamental Technology Netconf – platform for secure communication of XML data between DCNM / NX-OS and mgmt station. XML, using clear text tags, creates a self describing API. [...]

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Tags: C·CISCO·cisco live·communication·NDA·Network·Nexus·NX-OS·Technology·virtual device