Thoughts from the clouds
What is the best way to configure a network? There are probably a lot of different opinions out there. Some will say there is nothing like CLI. Others will prefer GUIs. And in this last point people will not agree on what is the best GUI: this one is too complex, this one has too … Continue reading Configuring your network from Excel
This is a question I have thinking about lately, after a customer asked me whether in Cisco ACI you can copy and paste config like in any other Cisco router or switch. Every network admin knows how to do a “show running-config”, copy a fragment of the config into a notepad, change it, and paste … Continue reading What should network config look like? (or the self-documenting network)
You might be thinking the same that I did: why the heck do you need MAC authentication in a data center? However, I came across this requirement from a customer recently. For this customer this was really important. Cisco ACI doesn’t offer any form of MAC authentication today. Furthermore, unfortunately this requirement is not very … Continue reading MAC authentication in Cisco ACI
(or how to get the features you need)
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
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
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