Posts tagged "cisco"

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vSphere Networking and Converged IO with Blade Servers - a UK VMUG presentation

Nov 15, 2012

My presentation was titled vSphere Networking and Converged IO with Blade Servers. I discussed how converged networking incorporating 10GE and FCoE is become more important as we try to utilise bandwidth more efficiently which is especially important with blade servers which have limited IO expansion. I explained the architecture of Cisco UCS and HP Virtual Connect as examples and how they can...

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Configuring Cisco Ports with HP Flex-10 to avoid loops

Apr 28, 2011

When deploying HP Flex-10 switches in your racks, one of the things that is often overlooked is ensuring you have the correct upstream switch port configuration. Your Flex-10 switches make up only one half of your network topology and need to be connected to upstream switches to complete the networking design. I'm going to use the example of Cisco upstream switches. I've blogged previously on m...

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