Archive for the 'vmware' Category

Feb 10 2010

The vSwitch ILLUSION and DMZ virtualization

Published byBrad Hedlund under Data Center, Nexus, vmware

Server virtualization has gained tremendous popularity and acceptance to a point now that customers are staring to host virtual machines from differing security zones on the same physical Host machine.  Physical servers that were self contained in their own DMZ network environment are now being migrated to a virtual machine resting on a single physical [...]

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Aug 11 2009

Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V design diagram with Palo adapter

Published byBrad Hedlund under Data Center, Design Diagrams, Featured, Nexus, unified computing, vmware

This is a follow-up and enhancement of a previous design diagram in which I showed Cisco UCS running the standard VMware vSwitch.  In this post I am once again showing Cisco UCS utilizing the Cisco (Palo) virtualized adapter with an implementation of VMware vSphere 4.0, however in this design we are running ESXi and the [...]

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Jul 05 2009

Cisco UCS and VMWare vSwitch design with Cisco 10GE Virtual Adapter

Published byBrad Hedlund under Data Center, Design Diagrams, FCoE, Featured, unified computing, vmware

This diagram is a sample design of Cisco UCS running vSphere 4.0 utilizing the VMWare vSwitch and Cisco’s virtualization mezzanine adapter.  The Cisco adapter is a dual port 10GE Converged Network Adapter supporting Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Network Interface Virtualization (NIV).  The Cisco adapter is “virtual” in the sense that this single physical [...]

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