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VMware NSX is something something awesome

At times I have trouble focusing on writing articles for some of the presentations I am exposed to at Tech Field Day. Because of that, I really wanted to try something different. …

Networking Field Day 15 – A new delegate emerges

Yet again I find myself honored, and questioning their selection methods, by being selected for a Networking Field Day event. Networking Field Day 15 kicks off April 6 and 7th in …

Installing VMware tools on Cisco ACS

As of ACS v5.4 Cisco has finally included VMware tools for their ADE OS. Unfortunately, when you upgrade, they do not get installed automatically as the installation is triggered …

Nexus 1000v – Out of Ports on a Virtual Switch?

Yesterday, work presented an interesting issue I wanted to share with everyone. While configuring a new virtual machine one of our systems engineers was presented with an issue he …

Introduction to the Nexus 1000V

The Nexus 1000V is a software-based Cisco NX-OS switch that integrates into VMware vSphere 4 and operates inside the VMware ESX hypervisor. With the 1000V your virtual servers have …

JunOS Olive Demonstration

As a follow up to my JunOS Olive tutorial, I made a demonstration video that shows Multicast functioning via OSPF to another Olive and an ImageStream VM.

Running JunOS under VMWare (updated – again!)

Interested in trying out JunOS? Can’t afford to build a real Juniper lab? Sounds like you need some Olives. No, we’re not talking about the green fruit commonly seen in a martini …

Fixing Vista Partition Error Messages when using Bootcamp

So, I had to reinstall Vista on my mac today — hadn’t touched it since I moved onto the Late 08 model… and once again, I started getting the common partition errors while Vista …

the road to Mac

I’ve been pondering it for quite some time, but yes now I have switched to Mac. I purchased a new 2.5ghz, 4gb of Ram, 15″ Macbook Pro. Purchased the 320gb 7200rpm hard drive …

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