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

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Entries Tagged as 'storage'

Nexus 5020 – Consolidated 10 Gig Ethernet and 4 Gig Fibre Channel

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE, CCIE Storage, CISCO, DC3.0, Technology, Uncategorized

Cisco released an addition to their Nexus series data center switching line, the Nexus 5020. The Nexus 5020 packs 1.04 terrabit of switching capacity into a 2 ru top of rack chassis. Inside this chassis you have 40 10 Gig Ethernet ports, as well as modular slots that can accept 12 extra 10 Gig ports, [...]

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Challenges integrating VMware into Cisco networks

March 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments · CISCO, Technology, virtualization, vmware

UPDATE – for those looking for the Nexus 1000v release, check out this post In the past couple years, VMware has changed from a product hidden in development and testing environments to a full fledged enterprise computing platform. It brings many benefits to the companies that implement it, however with those benefits come changes to [...]

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Cisco is using Linux virtualization and 40 core CPU’s for its next generation routers

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments · ASR1000, CCIE, CISCO, IOS-EX, IOS-XE, linux, MPLS

Cisco recently released a new series of router called the Aggregation Services Router, or ASR for short. This series of routers is mainly targeted at the service provider market, where it is targeted as a single chassis solution for what is called the “triple play” – Voice, Video, and Data. More accurately it can be [...]

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