Archive for the 'Design Diagrams' Category

Aug 11 2009

Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V design diagram with Palo adapter

Published byBrad Hedlund under Data Center, Design Diagrams, Featured, Nexus, unified computing, vmware

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 [...]

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Jul 05 2009

Cisco UCS and VMWare vSwitch design with Cisco 10GE Virtual Adapter

Published byBrad Hedlund under Data Center, Design Diagrams, FCoE, Featured, unified computing, vmware

This diagram is a sample design of Cisco UCS running vSphere 4.0 utilizing the VMWare vSwitch and Cisco’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 “virtual” in the sense that this single physical [...]

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