Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Cisco
Hands-On Lab 12: Cisco Nexus 1000v Switch
Posted by on February 26, 2009
This lab was very popular but I got there early this morning so didn’t have to wait – it takes you through configuring the new Cisco Nexus Virtual Switch, I was keen to understand how this works and how it integrates with vSphere. It works as thus; vSphere ESX is likely to ship with [...]
Answers on the Cisco Nexus vSwitch – what is it and is vShield the same?
Posted by on February 25, 2009
Just seen this post and was particularly interested in how the Cisco vSwitch works – it is shipped as part of ESX, and enabled/unlocked by a licence key, you need to download an OVF virtual appliance to manage it. That answers one of the big things I’ve been meaning to find out whilst I’m [...]
Virtualization – the key to delivering "cloud based architecture" NOW.
Posted by on June 23, 2008
There is a lot of talk about delivering cloud or elastic computing platforms, a lot of CxO’s are taking this all in and nodding enthusiastically, they can see the benefits.. so make it happen!….yesterday. Moving your services to the cloud, isn’t always about giving your apps and data to Google, Amazon or Microsoft. You [...]
VMWare/Cisco Switching Integration
Posted by on June 21, 2008
As noted here there is a doc that has been jointly produced between VMWare and Cisco which has all the details required for integrating VI virtual switches with physical switching. Especially handy if you need to work with networking teams to make sure things are configured correctly to allow failover properly between redundant switches/fabrics [...]
Useful Document for getting your Network Teams up to Speed with VMWare and it’s Virtual Networking
Posted by on March 18, 2008
Doc from Cisco Here.
Cisco ASR is Virtual to the Core, all 40 of them!
Posted by on March 14, 2008
Interesting article here on how Cisco have made heavy use of virtualization within their new ASR series router platform, Linux underneath and 40 core CPUs! This type of approach does make me wonder if we will get to the stage of running traditional “network” and “storage” services as VM’s under a shared hypervisor with [...]
Mmmm, Big, Really Big Cisco Switches
Posted by on February 11, 2008
Over here and here like the idea of combining FC and Ethernet in one chassis; They’re not cheap though, more info and viewpoint here and spec here looks to be the next step up from 6500 series catalyst. Cool
