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• Quirks of the Cisco 6500 Sup720 Module Ports
  Some things to look out for when working with the Sup720-10GE on the Cat6k.
• A List of FREE VMware vSphere Tools
  Great collection of 3rd party (and some official) tools for VMware that don't cost a cent.
• Make Sure Your Rails Application is Actually Caching
  Quick tip to ensure that Rails is actually serving from cache and not just pretending to do so.
• Enabling VMotion on internal vswitch
  How to make VMotion work when VMs are connected to a vSwitch with no physical interfaces.
• Release Notes for the Cisco ASA 5500 Series, 8.3(x)
  Update for the ASA appliances, featuring Anyconnect updates for 64-bit operating systems and a radically new NAT syntax.
• Cisco Catalyst 6500 Architecture White Paper
  The official source for Cat6k architecture and design questions.
• Notes on Cisco Catalyst 6500 architecture
  High-level overview of the various backplane and fabric options in the Cat6k.
• Extracting a 3DES key from an IBM 4758
  Software-based attack for stealing the crypto keys from a tamper-resistant IBM crypto processor.
• PowerCLI: Changing a VM IP Address with Invoke-VMScript
  How to update the IP address of a Windows VM programatically using the PowerShell-based PowerCLI.
• Auto-configure Linux vmware-tools at Boot time
  Bash initscript to ensure your vmware tools get reconfigured when the kernel is upgraded. Could use a tweak to not run on a non-VM host.
• Upgrade SQL Express to Standard or Enterprise
  This will come in handy if you start out with vCenter running on the included SQL Express server and later outgrow it.
• VMware Virtual Center Attributes – It’s all about the details
  Covers a lesser-known but VERY useful feature in vCenter for adding metadata to virtual machines.
• VMFS or NFS
  Performance and other considerations when choosing a storage architecture for vSphere. Also touches on FC vs. iSCSI/NFS.
• Designing Secure Multi-Tenancy into Virtualized Data Centers
  Cisco Validated Design for the just-announced VMware/NetApp reference architecture.
• Cisco Internal WAAS Implementation
  High-level overview of Cisco IT's WAAS rollout to 200+ remote offices. The resulting CIFS optimization lead them to massivly consolidate file services to regional hubs.