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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Entries Tagged as 'virtual device'

Measuring and mitigating risk involved with sharing virtual infrastructure between DMZ and Internal environments

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · hyper-v, virtualization, vmware

Ivan Pepelnjak over at IOS Hints and Tricks wrote a post about DMZ VLAN leaking that got me thinking.
He writes about “the VLAN leaking myth” and how it encourages clients to utilize physically separate network infrastructure in the DMZ’s. Now first things first, I wouldn’t call VLAN leaking a myth. At one time it was [...]

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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. This is necessary [...]

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Cisco NX-OS 4.0 | Next Generation Internet Operating System

January 29th, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE Storage, DC3.0, IOS-NX, NX-OS

The latest product to make its way from the storage networking arena into the data center networking arena is Cisco’s new NX-OS, next generation network operating system. Cisco has taken the highly succesful MDS line of switches, and  expanded on their success by taking their core operating system – SAN-OS and expanding it to provide [...]

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