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Cisco Nexus 1000V – a true switch for Vmware
The Cisco Nexus 1000V has been available for a while but I just realised I hadn’t raved about it yet, so here goes: it’s quite possibly one of the best examples of ‘technology A meets technology B and creates a beautiful baby’ I’ve seen in the past year. The ‘normal’ Cisco Nexus series of switches [...]
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Stacking Cisco switches with StackWise
If your switching infrastructure needs something bigger than a standalone LAN switch but not quite as big (and expensive) as a modular chassis, you might want to consider stacking your switches. Cisco offers their StackWise feature on the Cisco Catalyst 3750 series switches, and StackWise Plus on Catalyst 3750-E series. What StackWise basically does is build [...]
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Using EtherChannel for high availability on Cisco switches
07.21.08 | Permalink | 11 CommentsWhen building high availability networks or systems the three golden rules are: No single points of failure All failovers are automatic and swift Use non-proprietary technologies where possible When coupling server to the network I myself quite like using EtherChannel. EtherChannel allows multiple physical Ethernet links to combine into one logical channel, which allows the [...]
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