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		<title>&#8220;Jawbreaker&#8221;, merchant silicon, QFabric, and flat networks</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2011/06/10/jawbreaker-merchant-silicon-qfabric-and-flat-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brad, can you elaborate on Cisco’s Jawbreaker project? What exactly is it? Is it a response to Juniper’s Q-Fabric? Is it an attempt to rectify the inconsistencies in the differing purpose-built approaches of the N7K and N5K? Why create a new architecture? It seems like Cisco is really in trouble – creating a new architecture, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Routing over Nexus 7000 vPC peer-link? Yes and No.</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/12/16/routing-over-nexus-7000-vpc-peer-link-yes-and-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a Nexus 7000 design question that comes up from time to time: In a Nexus 7000 Vpc environment, how can I form a layer 3 adjency between the two switches. Lets say I want to run OSPF and want to create two SVIs on the two switches connected via Vpc, Will the neighborship [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/12/09/great-questions-on-fcoe-vntag-fex-vpc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bradhedlund.com/?p=2449</guid>
		<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 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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bradhedlund.com/?p=2333</guid>
		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bradhedlund.com/?p=1650</guid>
		<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>Nexus 1000V&#8217;s 17 load balancing algorithms, dedicated to Nicholas Weaver at EMC</title>
		<link>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/08/31/nexus-1000v-load-balancing-algoriths/</link>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/08/31/nexus-1000v-load-balancing-algoriths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to take a few minutes to point out the 17 different load balancing algorithms available when distributing traffic from a VMware vSphere ESX host to a network of clustered upstream switches. Normally I don&#8217;t write blogs on such short topics but this one has a little story behind it. This week I am [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/06/03/data-center-networking-qa-1-hp-nexus-1000v-qos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hedlund</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bradhedlund.com/?p=1339</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</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>
		<comments>http://bradhedlund.com/2010/02/10/vswitch-illusion-dmz-virtualization/#comments</comments>
		<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>22</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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bradhedlund.com/?p=816</guid>
		<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>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>
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		<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 as [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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