What Does HP Networking Need to Do Be Successful ?
Following the HP Network Tech Day here are my thoughts on what HP needs to do to be successful – from an engineers perspective.
Internets of Interest:31 Aug 10
Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 31 Aug 10:
Why Buy Dual Supervisors on Cisco Nexus 7000 ?
One reason you’ve never thought of for buying dual supervisors for the Nexus 7000, or even the Catalyst 6500.
Network Diagrams: Rotating Text on a Line
You want to put text on a line, but it’s the wrong direction or along the line. Here’s how to get that right.
Blessay
HP Network Tech Day – Summary View
The HP Network Tech Day was a good introduction to HP Networking. Just like the first meeting with your Account Manager and Sales Engineer where we size each other up, talk generalities, and be nice to each other but there wasn’t enough time to get down to the details.
The Ancient and Noble Art of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting, it’s something we all do. It may be your parents Internet connection, the company photocopier, your kid’s car or the core network of a medium sized bank. However, troubleshooting is not like that, it’s more like football, years of watching and playing does not guarantee to make you a superstar. However, with troubleshooting, just like football, it does teach you enough so you have an opinion on how it should be done.
VMware “vFabric” And the Potential Impact on Data Centre Network Design
If the VMware vFabric speculation is true, then the service focussed data centre designs just got very, very, interesting.
So You Want to Be a Network Consultant
Having spent over twenty years in I.T. and over seventeen years in networking, I’ve worked with a lot of Network Engineers. Career progression has always been a hot topic. I’ve always been interested in learning how people have found themselves in the job they now do. Here are ten tips from a Technical Services Director (or Vice President) on how to work for a Reseller.
The Myths and Magic of Fibrechannel Over Token Ring
This week has seen a lot of talk in the industry around the needs for FibreChannel over Token Ring. Lets take a looks at the Myths and Magic of this amazing opportunity
Featured Articles
HP Networking Tech Day – Live Blog
I’ll attempting to a new thing, live blogging from the HP Networking Tech Day .
IOS Hints Live – San Jose September 2010
IOSHints Live San Jose – Meet the author I very excited to be partnering with Ivan Peplnjak to provide a unique meetup and consulting session in San Francisco. IOSHints Live NIL Data Communications is organizing the first ever IOSHints Live event with IOS Hints technology blogger and Cisco Press book author Ivan Pepelnjak (CCIE#1354) in [...]
Runt Packet No 5 – A Technical Services Manager Speaks
Following the career discussions in some of our earlier podcasts, and his recent Blog Post “So you Want to be a Network Consultant” Kevin Bovis got in touch with me to talk about what sort of skills an engineer needs. We decided to record the discussion and so you can have even more Networking in your ears.
Blog Posts
What Does HP Networking Need to Do Be Successful ?
Following the HP Network Tech Day here are my thoughts on what HP needs to do to be successful – from an engineers perspective.
Packet Pushers Runt Packet No 6 – Force 10 Networks
This week the Runt Packet is with Force 10 Networks.
RFC 5952 – A Recommendation for IPv6 Address Text Representation
At last, some decent rules on the RIGHT way to write IPv6 addresses.
Is Your Vendor Too Busy ? Or Are They in Trouble ?
I deal with a number of suppliers and vendors. It’s part of networking. However, its becoming clear that some companies have people that are very busy because there isn’t enough people. Why ?
HP Network Tech Day – Summary View
The HP Network Tech Day was a good introduction to HP Networking. Just like the first meeting with your Account Manager and Sales Engineer where we size each other up, talk generalities, and be nice to each other but there wasn’t enough time to get down to the details.
Network Dictionary
Network Diagramming
Network Diagrams: Rotating Text on a Line
You want to put text on a line, but it’s the wrong direction or along the line. Here’s how to get that right.
Network Diagrams: Tips for Printing From Visio
It seems that printing from Visio is not particularly obvious. So this post covers how I would print documents from A4 to A0 paper sizes and some tips on getting good results.
Network Diagrams:Zones on a Diagram With Visio Shape Union
The post looks at using the Union of shapes in Visio to create unusal shaped objects. Especially useful when trying to draw zones to show the DMZ in dual layer firewall cluster.
Network Diagrams: Drawing Complex VLAN Networks With IP Addressing
Following my previous articles, lets go a little deeper in labelling the VLAN created and ways to handle multiple VLANs on a diagram.
