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Cisco makes its Nexus 1000v virtual switch less virtual

By On April 6, 2010 · 1 Comment

Cisco Systems is making its virtual switch, the Nexus 1000v, a little less virtual.

The Nexus 1000v virtual switch replaces the vSwitch embedded in VMware hypervisor software and aims to give network administrators more control and visibility into the switching that takes place between virtual machines on a virtual host server. To date, however, the Nexus 1000v has [...]

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Cisco adds rack server to data center computing system

By On June 4, 2009 · 2 Comments

Cisco this week extended its Unified Computing System data center convergence platform with rack mountable servers, saying the new form factor represents an “entry level” into UCS and more choice for customers.

Cisco, however, did not disclose pricing for the 1RU and 2RU servers, which will be available in the fourth quarter.

The new C-Series rack-mount servers are designed to help accelerate the adoption of the Cisco unified computing and data center virtualization system. Like the predecessor B-Series blades, the C-Series rack mount servers utilize [...]

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Can Cisco sell ‘unified’ vision to a tough server crowd?

By On March 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Cisco’s biggest challenge in gaining market acceptance for its new Unified Computing System is to convince data center managers to buy blade servers from the router giant instead of from traditional, incumbent suppliers.

“Server buyers don’t have a relationships with Cisco,” says James Staten of Forrester Research. “It will be tough to convince them of the need for another player in this market.”

Cisco last week finally took the wraps off of its long-anticipated UCS platform, which incorporates internally developed blade servers and is designed [...]

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Cisco: Very simple NTP configuration

By On December 3, 2008 · 2 Comments

NTP (Network Time Protocol) is usually very simple to configure on Cisco devices. Of course you can reach complex configuration, but since I work in this field I didn’t saw somebody to push the things to extreme in NTP configuration.

NTP is based on server – client relation. It is recommended that in a Cisco network environment, you should use online the client part of the NTP, and to choose some external NTP sever to synchronize with.  This is because using a NTP server (master) [...]

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