Author: erjosito

My name is Jose Moreno, I am a Microsoft architect passionate about increasing efficiencies in the DC. Today I focus in Microsoft Azure, which I find fascinating. In my private time I can't help being a Star Wars fanboy... You can follow me in Twitter under @erjosito

The network is *not* in my way

by erjosito

I recently got from F5 colleagues the idea, why not working on an automation use case showing the integration between ACI and F5. One use case they see often in their customer basis is autoscaling of Web farms: some system is looking at the load on the servers, and if that load grows over a … Continue reading The network is *not* in my way

Cisco ACI and Linux containers

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Some time ago I published a video in youtube describing a way to put together multiple workload types here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnpl5XwnM. It describes how to coordinate the configuration of the physical network (Cisco ACI) and a virtual network (vSphere vSwitch, OVS with Linux containers), in two cases: where the virtual network configuration is driven from the ACI … Continue reading Cisco ACI and Linux containers

Here my news of the month for Nexus 9000 or ACI (January 2015)

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7.0(3)I1(1) has hit CCO! Check release notes here: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus9000/sw/6-x/release/notes/70311_nxos_rn.html. Here my highlights: 10G Dynamic breakout support for N9500 40GE line cards (X9636PQ, X9432PQ and X9536PQ) and N9332PQ (all ports except 13-14 and 27-32 L2 Security: IPSG, DAI, DHCP snooping VXLAN routing, ARP suppression and EVPN MP-BGP control plane for N9300 (support for N9500 should come … Continue reading Here my news of the month for Nexus 9000 or ACI (January 2015)