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I thought it would be fun to pilot a series of posts where I pick out interesting search engine queries that were used to find my blog.  Often times these are good questions that deserve a good answer, or other interesting topics that can start a good discussion or fun debate.
This particular series will focus [...]

Server virtualization has gained tremendous popularity and acceptance to a point now that customers are staring to host virtual machines from differing security zones on the same physical Host machine.  Physical servers that were self contained in their own DMZ network environment are now being migrated to a virtual machine resting on a single physical [...]

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. — Yeah, awkward.
Anyway, for most of the time we (the Cisco team) focused on Flex-10’s total lack of [...]

I sometimes hear or read complaints about the Nexus 5000 + Nexus 2000 fabric extender architecture that I want to take a minute to address.  This should be short and sweet, a blogging concept that is foreign to me if you follow my work.
The typical complaints about this architecture from network engineers are [...]

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 [...]