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	<description>Studies in Data Center Networking, Virtualization, Computing</description>
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		<title>Data Center Networking Q&amp;A #1 &#8211; starring HP, Nexus 1000V, QoS</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/06/03/data-center-networking-qa-1-hp-nexus-1000v-qos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The vSwitch ILLUSION and DMZ virtualization</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/02/10/vswitch-illusion-dmz-virtualization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</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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		<category><![CDATA[FCoE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nexus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QoS]]></category>

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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&#8217;s total lack of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nexus 5000 &amp; Nexus 2000: New technology requires new thinking</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/02/09/nexus-5000-2000-new-technology-requires-new-thinking/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/02/09/nexus-5000-2000-new-technology-requires-new-thinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nexus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bradhedlund.com/?p=801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</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>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nexus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vmware]]></category>

		<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>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>VMotion on steroids with FCoE</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2008/08/14/vmotion-on-steroids-with-fcoe/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2008/08/14/vmotion-on-steroids-with-fcoe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want lightning fast VMotion? Just install a CNA (Converged Network Adapter) from Emulex or QLogic and connect it to a Cisco Nexus 5000.
Mario Apicella of InfoWorld did just that and writes:

  &#8220;I had intended to post a movie clip of the test VM moving to the new ESX server using VMotion, but the action [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Brocade buys Foundry, validating Cisco Data Center Strategy</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2008/07/21/brocade-buys-foundry-validating-cisco-data-center-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2008/07/21/brocade-buys-foundry-validating-cisco-data-center-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brocade announces intent to buy Foundy &#8212; Why would Brocade do this?
The writing was on the wall &#8230; Either become a Ethernet company or get crushed by Cisco.

The world is converging to Ethernet and IP.  What happened to Telecom is now happening in the Data Center.  Parallel infrastructures are costly to support, implement, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cisco Nexus 5000 announced Today</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2008/04/08/cisco-nexus-5000-announced-today/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2008/04/08/cisco-nexus-5000-announced-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bradhedlund.com/?p=51</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the new Cisco Nexus 5000? &#8212; The industry first switch to deliver unified server I/O, providing Fiber Channel and IP traffic over a single 10G Ethernet port to the server.  Nexus 5000 delivers very low latency wire speed lossless Ethernet service to the server.

As you can see from the photo the Nexus 5000 does not [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>A few words about Nexus 7000</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2008/03/30/a-few-words-about-nexus-7000/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2008/03/30/a-few-words-about-nexus-7000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nexus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are not familiar with the innovation in Cisco Nexus 7000 it&#8217;s easy to just dismiss it as  &#8220;Cisco&#8217;s answer to Force10&#8243;.  The reality is, the Nexus 7000 is much more than just a &#8220;me too&#8221; 10-gig switch to compete with likes of Force10, Foundry, Extreme, and others &#8212; Nexus is a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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