Colin McNamara – CCIE 18233 , VCP, RHCE, GCIH, GEEK

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, Fibre [...]

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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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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. This is necessary [...]

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