Varrow Blogs

First, if your interested in the new Cisco UCS blade system and haven’t checked out the Varrow channel on YouTube lately, you should.  We’ve added several new videos from a customer while doing their UCS install.  Pretty neat stuff.
Just finished up another video for our collection.  This one walks you through configuring Fibre Channel over [...]

Lately I’ve been talking with a lot of people deploying the Nexus 1000v in to their environment.  The question always comes up about doing a complete migration to it and what needs to be done.  It’s pretty simple, but if you miss some things, like I did the first time, it won’t work and you’ll [...]

We’ve been working with the Nexus 5Ks a good bit lately and they are just cool, no two ways about it.  One really nice feature that the Nexus 5000 and 7000 support is vPC, or virtual port-channels.  Take note that support for vPC is new on the 5K and you’ll need at least version 4.1(3)N1(1) [...]

It’s about time that consolidated I/O started getting mainstream attention.  Should you be interested?  Well, that depends (Hey, that’s my favorite answer to a question!).  Let’s talk a little bit about why you may want to look deeper in to the current offerings to help simplify your fabric management.
Consolidated I/O takes your separate fabrics, such [...]