Server Networking

We are going to be consolidating single servers into a large VMWare environment and the topic of how best to support the 1000baseT NICs on the VMWare boxes came up. Currently we use Cat-5e cables to connect individual servers to 6509 WS-X6748-GE bla...

Hi all, how do people connect servers for resilience on here, do most people team the network say on hp, then plug them on to 2 different switches?

How to Know that this Products are installed in 6509-E core switch with supervisor engine WS-SUP720-3BBF-S720-64MB-RP Bootflash for SUP720-64MB-RPMEM-S2-512MB Catalyst 6500 512MB DRAM on the Supervisor (SUP2 or SUP720)MEM-MSFC2-512MB Catalyst 6500 51...

Can Cat 6K Virtual Switch Services be used to trunk blade server switches uplinks to separate switches.Thanks,Bill

I am deploying HP BladeSystem C Class with Cisco 3020 Ethernet blade switches connecting to Catalyst 6500 at the aggregation layer. What are my best options for managing layer 2, VLANs, etc, across the Cat6K and 3020 switches?

Hii AllWe are going to procure the cisco content switch for loadbalancing and ssl accelartion , wheater this switch going to resolved our purpose . i just wana to know difference betweeen radware loadbalancer and this cisco switch in functionality.Th...

I have been asked to deploy an Infiniband fabric for a high performance computing application. How do I know it requires IB and that GE wouldn't do the job?Thanks

Hi,We are in process of deploying GSS @ our Data Center. Here @ Data Center we have our Web server , which is having one public address given from IP pool from ISP1 ( Say a.b.c.d ) . We plan to have ISP2 also have one ip address to be given to acce...

Dear All, I have 3 3560 -L3 catalyst switch and configured VLAN's,VTP and also SVI interface for VLAN's w.r.t to ip subnet on STP root bridge.My query is..With out activating "IP routing" all my intervlan's are communicated w/o L3.Iam curirou...

Considering we are facing power and cooling issues with blade servers, does it make sense to use integrated blade switches, which are going to increase the power draw for the blade chassis, or use high density Top of Rack switches and connect with a ...

Using a CSM-S with a number of web servers behind it, can the CSM-S be configured to act as a reverse proxy for the servers with no other equipment or licenses to buy?

Hi,I have a very restricted situation where I need two physical servers to be presented on the network as one virtual IP address.I cannot make any changes to the servers, i.e. Cluster or NLB so that option is out.I was looking at the SLB option but t...