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Is Cisco fighting a losing battle over SDN?

Virtualized Greek

All of Cisco’s major vendors are lined up in support of VMware’s NSX software based virtualization solution. HP – Top of Rack. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. VMware already produced a great post on how to leverage NSX in a Cisco UCS environment. Network Cisco NSX VMWare' Arista – Top of Rack.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. But how revolutionary and simplifying are they?

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Fountainhead: IO Virtualization: The ?Hypervisor? for Your.

Fountainhead

HP VirtualConnect ). In much the same way that the hypervisor has since been embedded in tools like VMware’s vCenter, IOV can (and has been) embedded with higher-level management tools. Converged Networking Adapters (e.g. Qlogic , Emulex ). Appliances + high-throughput IO devices (e.g. Putting IOV in Perspective.

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Introduction to Networking: Part 2, A Few More Basics

Scott Lowe

Switches generally support a variety of load balancing mechanisms, including source-destination MAC addresses, source-destination IP addresses, and sometimes even layer 4 (TCP/UDP) source-destination ports. Similar Posts: VMware ESX, NIC Teaming, and VLAN Trunking with HP ProCurve. Configuring Inter-VLAN Routing.

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