Tag-Archive for ◊ Cisco ◊

Cisco UCS Blade Chassis and Fabric Interconnects (6120s)
Sunday, July 10th, 2011 | Author:

Everywhere I have ever worked has been a Dell, Cisco and Microsoft shop. We have used Dell for our servers, Cisco for our networking equipment and Microsoft for our OS and a lot of our other software. This is a common model among a lot of Medium to Large businesses but I truly feel that Cisco is changing that model to a Cisco and Microsoft shop with their UCS blade chassis. I didn’t know a whole lot about the UCS blade chassis until I was able to actually work with one and see what it was capable of. In this article below I will go over what Cisco UCS is, the benefits, and some of the problems.

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Ultimate Virtual Environment With Free Tools
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 | Author:

One problem I have always run into with Virtual machines on your personal computer as a test environment is that you can’t include the Cisco configs in the environment or even setup routing between VMs. Your VMs have to be on the same network to talk or you have to install an additional server as a “Routing and Remote Access” server. Well there is a way around this using GNS3 and VirtualBox together as if they were meant to work together. In this article I will explain how to setup your virtual network in GNS3 and then attach your Virtual Machines to it in VirtualBox. It really is very simple.

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My Absence
Saturday, August 07th, 2010 | Author:

All,

I know I have been MIA for a few months and had no recent posts but I will hopefully be back now. Not to get into to much detail about my absence, I quit my job for a new job at a larger company with new technology. My first two months at my new job have been awesome and my first project has been re-wiring the entire data center so I have been pretty busy. But along with this new job and new responsibilties comes new knowledge and new technology I can blog about and share with everyone.

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Cisco Switching Basics
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | Author:

Cisco is the leader in Networking hardware for Small, Medium, Large and Enterprise businesses and knowing how to properly configure a cisco as well as know how a Cisco switch works is very crucial for any network administrator. If you have read a previous article on the OSI model you should know that a switch works at Layer 2 of the OSI model because it relies on the MAC address to determine where traffic should go.

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