Hi there,
Here you have my summary of stuff that has been going on last month around Cisco ACI and Nexus 9000. Great things happening in Interop, interesting videos posted in youtube, and much much more. I hope this is worth your time!
- ACI as SDN Winner in Interop 2015!
- ACI/N9K market numbers presented in Interop
- 2,665+ N9K customers (ACI/NXOS)
- 585+ ACI customers
- 35 ecosystem partners
- Interop announcement on SourceFire integration: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cisco-aci-integrates-security-from-sourcefire/2015/04/
- White paper on PCI certification of ACI: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/application-centric-infrastructure/white-paper-c11-734518.html
- Cisco UCS Director 5.3 is out there!
- Support for 1.0(3f)
- More out-of-the-box ACI tasks (the list is now quite impressive, around 180)
- Don’t miss the embedded use-case-based workflows in UCSD, some of them combining multiple technologies (like UCS and ACI)
- And something I learnt from Orf Gelbrich. There is an index of community-developed UCSD workflows here, some of them ACI-related: https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-56419
- Check out this white paper on VXLAN EVPN. Great content here: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-9000-series-switches/guide-c07-734107.html
- In order to show contract deny logs in the infrastructure events: Fabric -> Fabric Policies -> Monitoring Policies -> Common Policy -> Syslog Message Policies -> Policy for system syslog messages -> Change ‘default’ to ‘info’
- ACI Toolkit as downloadable VM: http://acitoolkit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorialpackages.html
- Five new public ACI trainings to enroll here: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/learning_center/aci-training-videos
- ACI Powertool available in DevNet! https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-55812 (note this is a community-supported effort)
- Here the Quick Start Guide: https://communities.cisco.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/55747-102-1-95934/Cisco_ACI_PowerTo_1
- From the Web
- Fortinet announces integration with ACI: http://www.fortinet.com/press_releases/2015/fortinets-best-breed-solutions-combine-cisco-aci-deliver-sdn-security.html
- New ACI Day-2 Operations post in Cisco DC blog, by Igino: https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/datacenter/sdn/aci-integrations/blog/authors/igino
- Great post by Juan on white boxes: http://nillosmind.blogspot.de/2015/04/whitebox-switches-are-black.html
- Continuation of Luca’s blog: “ACI for (smarter) dummies”: http://lucarelandini.blogspot.com/
- More on Radware-ACI integration from Cisco’s DC blog: http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/cisco-aci-and-radware-from-point-solutions-to-application-centric-services
- Python script to configure VXLAN EVPN constructs (tenants, networks) across multiple leafs: http://erjosito.tumblr.com/post/115968229767/was-network-management-ever-so-cool
- Videos
- An Open Conversation (Rob Lloyd, Frank d’Agostino, 6:24): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpeNoyYBVc4
- White Box Switches Are No Bargain (Rob Lloyd, Frank d’Agostino, 5:18): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RpOKBZ4Jf0
- Cisco ACI and IT Security Automation saves the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kcXhm9Vbyw
- Cisco N9K and ACI customer qualification (Joe Onisick feat. other great TMEs, 10:28): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfEPLvYunXs
Cloudtrooper 