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My most recent post Simple Example of Network Interface Virtualization generated enough interest and curosity to warrant a follow-up post showing simple uses cases for NIV.
NIV takes a single physical adapter and presents multiple virtual adapters as if they were physical adapters to the server and network.  Now that the server and network see multiple [...]

I’m seeing some confusion in the blogosphere about how Cisco’s implementation of Network Interface Virtualization (NIV) really works so perhaps a very simple example is needed, and that is the intent of this post.  My previous posts about NIV with Cisco’s Palo adapter were focused on the big picture and the complete solution, such as [...]

VMware ESX and ESXi 4.0 Comparison
This VMware KB article provides a side-by-side comparison of ESX vs. ESXi
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ARK Intel
covers all Intel processor and Network card models
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VMware vSphere 4 Configuration Maximums
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Fibre Channel over Ethernet Initialization Protocol (FIP) white paper
This page on Cisco.com describes FIP and it's use in a multi-hop FCoE topology
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Cisco Unified Fabric TCO Calculator Tool
This flash tool provides a TCO comparison of a Unified Fabric vs. Traditional network deployments.
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Cisco IT Data Center Tour
This site provides a very nice virtual tour of Cisco's Global Data Centers, including production data centers in Richardson TX & Northern California
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SPEC Benchmarks for Cisco [...]