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Revisiting the Components of the Cisco Nexus 1000v

This is an update and bit of a rewrite of an earlier post I made here.  I wanted to add more detail and information now that I’ve worked with the Nexus 1000v more.
If you’ve read a lot of the Varrow blogs you’ll see information and talk about Cisco’s Nexus technology and products.  To be blunt, [...]

Behind the Covers of the Nexus 1000v

If you’ve read a lot of the Varrow blogs you’ll see information and talk about Cisco’s Nexus technology and products.  To be blunt, it can be confusing and a bit convoluted.  The hardware products, the Nexus 5000 and 7000, have been out for a little while now and we’re seeing more and more interest in [...]

My thoughts on managing the converged fabric

Flying back to Charlotte tonight.  I’m somewhere over the east coast.  I wonder if the GPS on my iPhone would work up here…..  I better not risk taking the plane down.  Chuck Hollis posted a good discussion on his blog concerning the management of a consolidated I/O fabric, whether it be 10GigE with FCoE or [...]