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Design Guide: Cisco Solutions for VMware View 4.0 Desktop Virtualization
(tags: datacenter design-guide vmware cisco)

Design Guide: Secure Multi-Tenancy Virtualized Data Center
This Cisco validated design guide covers a design for secure multi-tenancy using VMware VShield, Cisco Nexus 1000V, UCS, Nexus 5000, Nexus 7000, and NetApp Filers.
(tags: datacenter design-guide ucs n1k n5k n7k netapp vmware cisco)

Data Center Interconnect Design Guide with vPC and VSS
This design guide primarily focuses on vPC and VSS based designs for interconnecting Data Centers with loop free L2 topologies and Spanning Tree isolation.
(tags: datacenter design-guide)

Cisco UCS vs. HP Matrix: strategic vs. tactical approach
This article by Steve Kaplan is a well researched comparison of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) versus HP Matrix. Steve provides lots of good technical data along with a high level look at the key architecture differences for data center virtualization … one strategic, the other [...]

How to install Nexus 1000V YouTube video 7 minutes
this video shows how to easily install the Nexus 1000V within 7 minutes using the new GUI installer in version 1.2
(tags: n1k)

Design Guide: Interconnecting Data Centers with Layer 2 services
Cisco design guide providing several validated design options for safely interconnecting geographically disperse data centers with Layer 2 connectivity
(tags: datacenter design-guide)

Best Practices in Deploying Cisco Nexus 1000V on Cisco UCS
This document provides design guidance and best practices in deploying the Cisco Nexus 1000V switches embedded within the VMware vSphere hypervisor on top of the Cisco Unified Computing System with respect to deployment options using the various adapter types that the Cisco Unified Computing System supports.
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VMware ESX and ESXi 4.0 Comparison
This VMware KB article provides a side-by-side comparison of ESX vs. ESXi
(tags: vmware)

ARK Intel
covers all Intel processor and Network card models
(tags: intel)

VMware vSphere 4 Configuration Maximums
(tags: vmware)

Fibre Channel over Ethernet Initialization Protocol (FIP) white paper
This page on Cisco.com describes FIP and it's use in a multi-hop FCoE topology
(tags: fcoe)

Cisco Unified Fabric TCO Calculator Tool
This flash tool provides a TCO comparison of a Unified Fabric vs. Traditional network deployments.
(tags: cisco tco calculator)

Cisco IT Data Center Tour
This site provides a very nice virtual tour of Cisco's Global Data Centers, including production data centers in Richardson TX & Northern California
(tags: cisco datacenter video)

SPEC Benchmarks for Cisco [...]