Varrow Blogs

This week I was asked to come and help do a small pilot project of the Nexus 5000 and 4000 at East Carolina University.  I was very happy to do it for two reason:  1.  I love working with the Nexus gear and especially FCoE and 2.  I just finished my Masters from ECU via [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

The other day I wrote a bit about UCS and the idea behind it.  This time I want to go a little deeper in to the components that make up a UCS system and how they connect.  One thing about Cisco is they offer very modular solutions.  Usually this is great but it can be [...]

There has been some good chatter going around concerning FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) from both Scott Lowe and Chad Sakac.  I had a chance to talk with Chad and Stuart Miniman today and I pretty much agree (go figure) with their thoughts, which align with Chad’s post.
For Varrow, in this context, we really see [...]

There has been some good chatter going around concerning FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) from both Scott Lowe and Chad Sakac.  I had a chance to talk with Chad and Stuart Miniman today and I pretty much agree (go figure) with their thoughts, which align with Chad’s post.
For Varrow, in this context, we really see [...]

Discussions abound the web on the ambition of FCoE and whether or not its birth is iSCSI’s demise. Yeah it makes for a great debate, a chance for industry pundits to smack the proverbial knuckles of their competitors. But is it necessary, and who can argue or foresee that either block level transport will trump [...]

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 [...]