Archive for the ‘Cisco’ Category

Delivering Cisco IP Communicator from Citrix XenDesktop

May 13, 2010

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Support by Server

April 13, 2010

Often one of the hardest items to find is whether or not your existing server is compatible with the current release of Cisco’s Communications Manager Software.  Below is the link to the UCM Server Support Matrix by software release.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6790/ps5748/ps378/prod_brochure0900aecd8062a4f9.html

How NIV and FCOE Play Together

March 28, 2010

If you are interested in Cisco UCS (very cool stuff), FCOE, DCB, Nexus 1000v then this is a must read article from Scott Lowe.

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2010/03/21/how-niv-and-fcoe-play-together/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slowe%2Fcontent%2Ffeed+%28blog.scottlowe.org+Content+Feed%29

Interesting FCOE/DCB analogy

March 28, 2010

If you didn’t know there was not multi-hop in FCOE/DCB you might want to consider reading this post which helps explain why this is.

http://nickapedia.com/2010/03/19/fcoe-multi-hop-why-wait/

Cisco UCS QoS vs. HP Flex-10 vNICs in VMware

March 20, 2010

Great article pointing out the VMware networking differences between Flex-10 and UCS QoS.  Of course HP is getting ready to make some more changes to their Flex-10 (Flex Fabric I think it is called) so stay tuned.

http://blog.aarondelp.com/2010/03/cisco-ucs-qos-vs-hp-flex-10-vnics-in.html

Setting Up FCOE on a Nexus 5000

October 26, 2009

Scott Lowe posted yesterday on how to setup Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE) on a Cisco Nexus 5000. He made a very easy to follow How-To guide, which is located here:

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/10/25/setting-up-fcoe-on-a-nexus-5000/