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How to Connect the DC Adapter for the ASA 5506H-X?
Cisco ASA 5506-X, ASA 5506W-X, and ASA 5506H-X Hardware Installation Guide How to maintain and upgrade your ASA firewalls, such as the popular ASA 5506-X, ASA 5506W-X and ASA 5506H-X? In this article we will share the two guides for Cisco ASA 5506-X,...
What Factors Will Affect Server Purchases for IT Buyers?
How many factors do you consider to choose a server? For example, VM and container consolidation, as well as visualization and scientific computing, each affect the decision. Yes, server selection is a quandary for IT, as security, the use of file servers...
5 Benefits You Get When Buying a Top of Rack Switch Nexus 3000
What makes Nexus 3100-V unique? Here is a summary of the most important highlights: Support of 100G uplinks Bigger buffer (16MB) Double System memory (16GB) Quadruple Ingress ACL: increased from 4,000 to 16,000 VxLAN routing Watch this video if you’d...
Cisco Nexus 5500 and Nexus 5600 Licensing Options
Different types of licenses are required for the Nexus 5500 and Nexus 5600. Table 1-15 describes each license and the features it enables. Table 1-15 Nexus 5500 Product Licensing Feature License Product ID Features FabricPath Services Package N5548-EL1-SSK9...
Cisco’s Data Center Architecture
Originally, most of the traffic data center network architects designed around was client-to-server communication or what we call “north-south.” With client-to-server traffic being the most dominant, network engineers/architects primarily built data centers...
How to Stack Cisco Catalyst 2960-X or 2960-XR Series Switches?
Stacking Cisco Catalyst 2960-X or 2960-XR Series Switches is often asked by Cisco users. When we talk about the Catalyst 2960-X or 2960-XR stacking, we need to know Cisco FlexStack-Extended and FlexStack-Plus technology. What’s the FlexStack-Extended...
Why 25G Transceiver Choices?
25G Speeds Up Data Centers and Campus Backbones NOW. With the massive increase in demand for data, equipment providers are responding with 25Gbps edge devices that require more bandwidth than can be provided on a traditional 10Gbps interface. Whether...
Cisco Firepower 2100 Series, as a NGFW or a NGIPS
The new Cisco Firepower 2100 Series appliances help you achieve a better security doesn’t come at the expense of network performance. Cisco Firepower 2100 Series can be deployed either as a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) or as a Next-Generation IPS (NGIPS)....
What's in HPE's persistent memory/8GB NVDIMM?
HPE’s new persistent memory modules, the NVDIMMs, combine the speed of DRAM with the resilience of flash. The persistent memory module combines 8GB of DRAM and 8GB of flash in a single module that fits in a standard server DIMM slot. DRAM operates at...
The Advantages of Disk-based Backup
Read the two questions first: when should you use specific disk-based backup products and technologies? How can you fit them into your storage architecture? With disk-based backup, tape media is replaced as a target for backups with disk, usually in the...