ClustrMaps

The Forgotten Cisco Nexus Switch: Nexus 4000

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 [...]

Video Demonstration of the Cisco Nexus 5020 and FCoE

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 [...]

Is It Still Too Early for FCoE?

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 [...]

Is It Still Too Early for FCoE?

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 [...]

VMware: The debate over storage protocols

I’m all over the place this week.  Tonight I’m at a cool little coffee shop in Providence, RI enjoying an excellent latte and some gingerbread while trying to ignore the woman on the other side of the room with the really annoying laugh.  Yesterday Joe put up another great post about VMware and NFS.  Articles [...]