Thoughts from the clouds
Winter is coming closer, and we are in the count down before the next big ACI release comes (code named “Brazos”) with lots of operational enhancements, amongst other things. In the meantime, this is what has been going on in the ACI/N9K area this past month of October: Puppet for ACI: https://github.com/datacenter/puppet-aci. The Puppet Device framework … Continue reading ACI/N9K news update: October
Hi there, I missed the updates during Summer, so this one is a bit more dense than usual 🙂 Hope you find something interesting! ACI software 1.1(3f) posted in CCO! 1.1(3f) Release Notes: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/aci/apic/sw/1-x/release/notes/apic_rn_113f.html This release contains mostly bug-fixes, plus the new feature “Deployment Warning and Policy Usage Information”: before updating a policy you can … Continue reading N9K/ACI update: September+
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)
Hi there, fasten your seat belts, because these last weeks have been spectacular. Not because I was lazy and I am including here not just June, but the first July week (therefore “June+” and not only “June” update), but because Cisco Live happened, and a LOT of stuff has been going on. Take your time, … Continue reading June+ Cisco ACI/N9K news update
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)
Biggest hit this month in my opinion was the release of the NXOS version 7.0(3)I1(2) for the Nexus 9000. I had the chance to test this in a real customer environment last week for VXLAN EVPN, and it worked great, specially in the network convergence area. Don’t miss other exciting stuff like Santiago’s videos on … Continue reading May update on Cisco ACI/N9K news
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! http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/special-events/best-of-interop-awards.php http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/cisco-apic-wins-best-of-interop-2015-award-in-sdn-category https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Z9zWLFXoQ (0:47) ACI/N9K … Continue reading April update on ACI / Nexus 9000 news
Oh yeah, another 4-letter acronym in the CV! Today I am very happy to have passed the VCXN610 exam, the final obstacle before achieving the VCIX-NV cert. After all the study and lab time, I have gained some experience with NSX for vSphere, and I would like to summarise here some of my thoughts about … Continue reading VCIX-NV in the bag!
Admittedly, I am sick. That is at least what most people would say, if I told them that last night I was having fun programming in Python in order to automate a VXLAN environment using an EVPN control plane. Whaaaat??? In my opinion, VXLAN fabrics with EVPN are really cool. Lots of benefits over traditional … Continue reading Was network management ever so cool?
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