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Resolution Immediacy and Deployment Immediacy – ACI Master Class
When configuring ACI, have you ever wondered what those Resolution Immediacy options [Immediate | On Demand | Pre-provision] and the Deployment Immediacy options [Immediate | On Demand] do? Continue reading
Posted in Access Policy Chain, ACI, ACI Tutorial, Cisco, Master Class, Nexus 9000
Tagged deployment immediacy, deployment immediacy best practice, resolution immediacy, resolution immediacy best practice
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Cisco ACI Naming Standards
Have you ever wondered what a L3 Out object is, when there no facility to create an object called L3 Out? I managed to solve this and many other ambiguities by developing and adopting a consistent naming standard. Continue reading
Posted in Access Policies, ACI, ACI configuration, Cisco, Data Center, Data Centre, Nexus, Nexus 9000, SDN, Software Defined Networking
Tagged ACI, APIC, Cisco, Nexus 9000, SDN
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Cisco ACI Tutorial 4 – The Access Policy Chain – a new “interface range” command
The Access Policy Chain – a new “interface range” command Cisco ACI Tutorial – Part 4 Since you no longer have to configure ports on individual switches, but rather configure multiple ports on multiple switches from a central controller, some … Continue reading
Posted in Access Policies, Access Policy Chain, ACI, ACI configuration, ACI Configuration Tutorial Series#1, ACI Tutorial, Cisco, configuration tutorial, Data Center, Data Centre, Nexus, Nexus 9000, SDN, Software Defined Networking, tutorial
Tagged AAEP, access port policy group, ACI, ACI configuration, AEP, ANP, APIC, APPG, Application Centric Infracture, Attachable Access Entity Profile, Attached Entity Profile, Bridge Domain, Cisco, configuration tutorial, Domain, EPG, interface policy, interface policy group, interface profile, Nexus 9000, Nexus 9K, SDN, Software-defined networking, switch profile, switch selector, tutorial, VLAN Pool, VMM Domain
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Cisco ACI Tutorial 3 – Sing a new song for sorting server groups and policy
Sing a new song for sorting server groups and policy Cisco ACI Tutorial – Part 3 If you have been responsible for defining groups of servers and devices to which policy can be applied, you have probably used structures called Access … Continue reading
Posted in ACI, ACI configuration, ACI Configuration Tutorial Series#1, ACI Tutorial, Cisco, configuration tutorial, Data Center, Data Centre, Nexus, Nexus 9000, SDN, Software Defined Networking, tutorial
Tagged ACI, ACI configuration, ANP, APIC, Application Centric Infrastructure, Cisco, configuration tutorial, EPG, Nexus 9000, Nexus 9K, SDN, Software-defined networking, tutorial
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Cisco ACI Tutorial 2 – Goodbye to VLANs. Well… not quite
I almost always avoid using the Wizard steps because Wizards are magical creatures that are particularly good at hiding information. Continue reading
Posted in ACI, ACI configuration, ACI Configuration Tutorial Series#1, ACI Tutorial, Cisco, configuration tutorial, Data Center, Data Centre, Nexus, Nexus 9000, SDN, Software Defined Networking, tutorial
Tagged ACI, ACI configuration, ANP, APIC, Application Centric Infrastructure, Cisco, configuration tutorial, EPG, Nexus 9000, Nexus 9K, SDN, Software-defined networking, tutorial
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Cisco ACI Tutorial – A Configuration Guide
Cisco ACI Tutorial – A Configuration Guide Cisco ACI Tutorial – Part 1 Note: This is the first of a series of four blog posts that I plan to publish over the coming weeks. Make sure you follow my blog … Continue reading
Posted in ACI, ACI configuration, ACI Configuration Tutorial Series#1, ACI Tutorial, Cisco, configuration tutorial, Data Center, Data Centre, Nexus, Nexus 9000, SDN, Software Defined Networking, tutorial
Tagged ACI, ACI configuration, ANP, APIC, Application Centric Infrastructure, Cisco, configuration tutorial, EPG, Nexus 9000, Nexus 9K, SDN, Software-defined networking, tutorial
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No. This is not a post about the Routing Information Protocol, but to announce that today is the last day that Cisco will give support for the PIX firewall. The last date to receive service and support for the product. … Continue reading
2013/07/27
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Why I wouldn’t bother with Enhanced VPC
This article explains why I think using Cisco’s Enhanced VPC may not be the best design when using dual-attached servers for two prime reasons: It does not add any additional redundancy to the design It does add complexity to the … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, Data Center, Data Centre, Enhanced VPC, eVPC, Fabric Extender, FEX, Nexus, Nexus 2000, Nexus 5000, opinion, VPC
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