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	<title>BRAD HEDLUND .com&#187; FCoE</title>
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	<description>Studies in Data Center Networking, Virtualization, Computing</description>
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		<title>Great questions on FCoE, VN-Tag, FEX, and vPC</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/12/09/great-questions-on-fcoe-vntag-fex-vpc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received some really good questions about FCoE, VN-Tag, FEX, and vPC from a reader named Lucas.  Although I had 10 other things to do, I just couldn&#8217;t resist highlighting these questions, and my answers, in a new post that I thought my readers would enjoy! Brad, You have amazing information about Nexus and UCS [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cisco UCS Fabric Extender (FEX) QoS</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/12/08/cisco-ucs-fabric-extender-fex-qos/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/12/08/cisco-ucs-fabric-extender-fex-qos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bradhedlund.com/?p=2430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the role of the fabric extender (FEX) in Cisco UCS QoS? This question was posted as a comment to my recent article VMware 10GE QoS Design Deep Dive with Cisco UCS, Nexus &#8212; as well as here, at the Cisco Support community forums. Brad: A comment to test my understanding and then a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cisco Nexus 7000 connectivity solutions for Cisco UCS</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/12/01/cisco-nexus-7000-connectivity-solutions-for-cisco-ucs/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/12/01/cisco-nexus-7000-connectivity-solutions-for-cisco-ucs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cisco UCS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FabricPath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCoE]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer I was invited by the Nexus 7000 product management team at Cisco to help co-author a whitepaper covering general guidelines and best practices for network integration of Cisco UCS with Cisco Nexus 7000.  The idea was to take a lot of the content already presented in my video series Cisco UCS Networking Best Practices (in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>The end to end (FCoE) justifies the means to means</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/11/19/the-end-to-end-fcoe-justifies-the-means-to-means/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/11/19/the-end-to-end-fcoe-justifies-the-means-to-means/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was pleasantly surprised to see that Mike Fratto, site editor and lead analyst from Network Computing, called me out in this article, with the following statement: two nodes using FCoE connected to a Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender, which is connected to a Nexus 5000, does not constitute end-to-end Ethernet FCoE because the Nexus 2000 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>VMware 10GE QoS Design Deep Dive with Cisco UCS, Nexus</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/09/15/vmware-10ge-qos-designs-cisco-ucs-nexus/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/09/15/vmware-10ge-qos-designs-cisco-ucs-nexus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I wrote a brief article discussing the intelligent QoS capabilities of Cisco UCS in a VMware 10GE scenario, accompanied by some flash animations for visual learners like me.  In that article I (intentionally) didn&#8217;t get too specific with design details or technical nuance.  Rather, I wanted to set the stage first with a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>HP Flex-10 versus Nexus 5000 &amp; Nexus 1000V with 10GE passthrough</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/02/09/hp-flex-10-versus-nexus-5000-nexus-1000v-with-10ge-passthrough/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/02/09/hp-flex-10-versus-nexus-5000-nexus-1000v-with-10ge-passthrough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting discussion with a customer the other day where both Cisco (myself included) and HP account teams where on the same call to discuss Flex-10, Nexus 1000V, or other approaches that may work better. &#8212; Yeah, awkward. Anyway, for most of the time we (the Cisco team) focused on Flex-10&#8242;s total lack [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Simple use cases for Network Interface Virtualization</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/10/23/simple-use-cases-for-network-interface-virtualization/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/10/23/simple-use-cases-for-network-interface-virtualization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FCoE]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bradhedlund.com/?p=761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>A simple example of Network Interface Virtualization</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/10/23/network-interface-virtualization-simple-example/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/10/23/network-interface-virtualization-simple-example/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FCoE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bradhedlund.com/?p=749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m seeing some confusion in the blogosphere about how Cisco&#8217;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&#8217;s Palo adapter were focused on the big picture and the complete solution, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V design diagram with Palo adapter</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/08/11/cisco-ucs-nexus-1000v-design-palo-virtual-adapter/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/08/11/cisco-ucs-nexus-1000v-design-palo-virtual-adapter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bradhedlund.com/?p=641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow-up and enhancement of a previous design diagram in which I showed Cisco UCS running the standard VMware vSwitch.  In this post I am once again showing Cisco UCS utilizing the Cisco (Palo) virtualized adapter with an implementation of VMware vSphere 4.0, however in this design we are running ESXi and the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cisco UCS and VMWare vSwitch design with Cisco 10GE Virtual Adapter</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/07/05/cisco-ucs-vmware-vswitch-design-cisco-10ge-virtual-adapter/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2009/07/05/cisco-ucs-vmware-vswitch-design-cisco-10ge-virtual-adapter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This diagram is a sample design of Cisco UCS running vSphere 4.0 utilizing the VMWare vSwitch and Cisco&#8217;s virtualization mezzanine adapter.  The Cisco adapter is a dual port 10GE Converged Network Adapter supporting Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Network Interface Virtualization (NIV).  The Cisco adapter is &#8220;virtual&#8221; in the sense that this single physical [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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