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Imtech ICT is Cisco Advanced Data Center Architecture certified

Erik Scholten — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:07:29 +0000

Today Imtech ICT announced that it is the first company in the Netherlands which has achieved the Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization from Cisco. Cisco Data Center Architecture Specialization tests knowledge in selling, designing, installing, and supporting the Data Center Architecture. This specialization recognizes Data Strategy as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites [...]

by Erik Scholten

Cisco, a serious player in the server market

Erik Scholten — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:45:29 +0000

In the past, when I had to design a virtual infrastructure, I had a limited range of server hardware to pick from. Mainly HP and Dell or an occasional IBM server. But since the beginning of this year I can not bypass Cisco. It is still a bit strange to some people when you mention [...]

by Erik Scholten

Cisco UCS competitive update webinar

Erik Scholten — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:17:10 +0000

Cisco has been around for years and years on the networking and security side but since a year or so they are a real upcoming player on the server market. Personally I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems first hand and WOW I’m impressed. On March 23, 2011 (1:00 PM – 2:00 [...]

by Erik Scholten

vSphere network troubleshooting

Erik Scholten — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:06:55 +0000

During the last month I have been very busy building a new infrastructure at a client site. I’m responsible for the overall technical solution and the basis, a VMware vSphere infrastructure build on five Dell PowerEdge R805′s, Dell EqualLogic PS5000 and 6000 storage and Cisco switches for LAN, DMZ and IP storage networking. Just before [...]

by Erik Scholten

Hot adding or removing a Cisco 3750 from a stack

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:02:19 +0000

When using a Cisco 3750 stack connected through stackwise technology you can add or remove a Cisco switch while the stack stays on. If you are adding or removing a switch from the stack, it is very important that the switch is turned OFF. The rest of the stack can keep doing its business. For [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Updated: Determining VMware Build Numbers for several VMware Products

Edwin Weijdema — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:55:50 +0000

While I was updating the Determining VMware vCenter and ESX Build Numbers post I thought I would semi-automate the updating of the post with new build numbers for new releases, while working on it I started too fill an excel sheet and ended up with an excel sheet with the following products and build numbers [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

Want to know more about the Cisco Nexus 1000V?

Anne Jan Elsinga — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:21:54 +0000

The Cisco Nexus 1000V is the first switch that can be placed in your vSphere virtual infrastructure, giving back network control back to the people that know the most about networking: The network admins. The Nexus 1000V is built on the distributed vSwitch technology in vSphere and can be managed by the same tools that [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

Cisco Nexus 1000V released

Erik Scholten — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:21:31 +0000

Last night I received an e-mail from Cisco thanking me for my work in the Nexus 1000V beta program and announcing the availability of the final product. For those of you that don’t know the Cisco Nexus 1000V, it is a pure software implementation of a Cisco Nexus switch which can be used in vSphere [...]

by Erik Scholten