Archives by Tag 'cisco'

Cisco Solutions for VMware View 4 – Design Guide

By Shannon McFarland - Last updated: Thursday, February 4, 2010

Hey folks,
Yes, I have fallen off the planet.  I have been so engulfed in lab work, architecture specifications and speaking engagements that I have had zero time for anything else.  I almost forgot I had a blog.
I recently posted a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) for VMware View 4.  This is a comprehensive guide [...]

Yes kids, the Cisco IOS IPv6 General-Prefix feature is cool

By Shannon McFarland - Last updated: Monday, August 24, 2009

The Cisco IOS IPv6 General-Prefix feature has been around for awhile and has not been that widely used until lately.  I have met with several customers who deployed the feature during their pilot deployments of IPv6 when they were using an RFC4193 Unique Local Address (ULA) or some temporary IPv6 prefix such as the RFC3849 [...]

Login VSI 1.0 Issues with VMware View 3.1

By Shannon McFarland - Last updated: Wednesday, June 17, 2009

I have used Login Consultants Login VSI 1.0 tool for a number of desktop virtualization research projects and I recently fired it up again for some VMware View 3.1 RDP over HTTP/HTTPs traffic profiling for QoS and Cisco WAAS/WAAS Mobile.
Login VSI does not natively support/use the VMware View client (it launches an RDP/ICA session directly [...]

VMware vSphere With IPv6 – First Look

By Shannon McFarland - Last updated: Monday, June 15, 2009

My team lives in the world of Cisco, VMware and Microsoft.  In addition to those vendors I focus on all things Enterprise IPv6.  Based on that I am always looking for applications, tools, services, blah, blah that can leverage IPv6.
I have captured a few screenshots for the initial setup of VMware vSphere 4.0 over IPv6.  [...]

IPv6 Deployment – Goals/Disclaimer

By Shannon McFarland - Last updated: Tuesday, May 19, 2009

This is my goal and disclaimer for a multi-part series focused on deploying IPv6.  I am an enterprise guy so the things I care about are related to IPv6 deployment in the campus, branch/WAN, remote access, internet edge and data center.  We will walk through some of the top careabouts related this these ‘places in [...]