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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Nexus 5020 – Consolidated 10 Gig Ethernet and 4 Gig Fibre Channel
April 9th, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE, CCIE Storage, CISCO, DC3.0, Technology, Uncategorized
Tags: C·CCIE·CISCO·Colin·Data Center·FCOE·Fibre Channel·Gadget·NDA·Nexus·Nexus 5020·san·storage·switch·vmware
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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