July 20, 2011 7:13 AM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
6500,
capacity,
Catalyst,
Cisco,
core,
distribution,
Nexus,
router,
S2T,
SUP720,
switch,
vsCisco has recently introduced the S2T. We ran a comparison from the prospective of backplane capacity...
May 16, 2011 12:49 PM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
access,
ACL,
Cisco,
DCNM,
distribution,
F1,
Fabric,
FabricPath,
forwarding,
IPv4,
IPv6,
M1,
M1-XL,
MAC,
Nexus 7000,
security group tags,
SGT,
Unicast,
vlan,
VSANCisco Nexus series switches brought a new technology to the data center. The whole designed is changed from the Catalyst 6500 series. Nexus is no longer dependent on SUP's backplane, it is more like a midplane architecture. Let me elaborate a little on this, what that statement means that...
May 5, 2011 3:53 PM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
cisco 6509,
client,
configuration,
core,
distribution,
routing,
server,
server farm,
switch,
vtp pruning
In my previous entry of "
October 31, 2010 2:39 PM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
access,
Cisco,
client,
configuration,
core,
design,
distribution,
network,
routed,
switch,
trunk,
vtpThis is the final part of the series. In this blog entry, I would post the sequence and the configuration lines that are needed to be done in order to have smooth transition from trunk ports to routed ports. The
October 27, 2010 3:46 AM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
access,
Cisco,
core,
design,
distribution,
ip,
network,
routed,
scheme,
subnet,
trunk,
vlanIn this part, I would talk bout the migration from current network, to the proposed network.
Figure 1 shows a core layer with two distribution layer, the one on the left is current, and the one on the right is the proposed. Before explaining any further, take note that although user vlans were...
October 23, 2010 1:37 AM
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
Cisco,
core,
design,
distribution,
infrastructure,
loop,
ports,
routed,
stp,
switch,
trunk
In this post I'll talk about...