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Category Archives: Data Centre
Making the most of ACI when routing between tenants via a Firewall
I’ll show you how you can enhance your ACI migration by using some ACI features that are practically impossible to implement on L3 Firewalls Continue reading
Posted in ACI, ACI Tutorial, Cisco, configuration tutorial, Data Center, Data Centre
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ACI Version mismatch Alert. Don’t use v5 on APIC and v14 on Leaves
If you are stuck with some first-generation switches in your ACI fabric, you might be tempted to upgrade your APIC to version 5.x – maybe even attempt to upgrade your leaf switches to the companion v15.x. Let me tell you why you don’t want to do that. Continue reading
Posted in ACI, Cisco, Data Center, Data Centre
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Configuring Link Speed on UCS 6545 10/25G ports
The secret is to double-click on the port to bring up the Properties window. From here you find the Show Interface option. Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, Data Center, Data Centre, Hyperflex, UCS
Tagged Link Speed, UCS
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Seven things to know to make Hyperflex go – Cisco HyperFlex Best Practices
Creating a Datastore in Hyperflex Connect is easy, Creating a Datastore in vCenter is messy, When creating HXDP Snapshots in vCenter you need to be careful. There are some things that you need to do differently, and some you should do differently. Here are Seven things to know to make Hyperflex go. Continue reading
Posted in Best Preactices, Cisco, Data Center, Data Centre, ESXi, Hyperflex, VMware
Tagged Best Practices, HX, HXDP, Hyperflex
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RedNectar’s HX Pre-Install Checklist
…has been updated and is found here: https://rednectar.net/2018/10/06/rednectars-hyperflex-pre-install-checklist-updated/
Posted in Cisco, Data Center, Data Centre, Hyperflex, UCS
Tagged Cisco, HX, Hyperflex, vsan
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ISIS, COOP, BGP and MP-BGP in Cisco ACI
Let me start with a picture. Imagine a simple 2leaf/2spine topology with HostA attached to to Leaf1 and with HostB attached to to Leaf2. Enter IS-IS. The leaves and spines will exchange IS-IS routing updates with each other so that Leaf1 sees that it has two equally good paths to reach Leaf2, and Leaf2 sees that it has two equally good paths to reach Leaf1. Now think about the hosts. This is where COOP comes in. BGP is not needed until an external router is connected. Continue reading
Posted in ACI, ACI configuration, APIC, Cisco, Data Center, Data Centre, EPG, L3 Out, L3out
Tagged ACI, ACI configuration, APIC
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Non overlapping VTEP IP addresses in Cisco ACI
Cisco recommends that “The TEP IP address pool should not overlap with existing IP address pools that may be in use by the servers (in particular, by virtualized servers).”
Let me tell you a reason much closer to reality why you might want to avoid overlapping your Cisco ACI TEP addresses with your locally configured addressing scheme. Continue reading
Posted in ACI, ACI configuration, APIC, Cisco, Data Center, Data Centre
Tagged ACI, ACI configuration, ACI inband, aci oob, APIC
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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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A funny thing happened in the ACI lab today…
I had a Tenant with a statically configured bare metal hosts attached to interface 1/16 on both leaf 101 and leaf 102, but came up with a “invalid-path;invalid-vlan” error on the faults page for the EPG that was being configured … Continue reading
Posted in Access Policies, ACI, ACI configuration, APIC, Data Center, Data Centre
Tagged ACI, APIC, invalid path, invalid vlan, invalid_path, invalid_vlan, __ui
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Configuring In-Band Management for the APIC on Cisco ACI (Part #3-via a L3Out)
Note: This is the third and last in a series of articles – the following is a variation of the first and second in the series. Much of the story is identical – but with a few added extras to configure the L3 out rather … Continue reading
Posted in ACI, ACI API, ACI CLI, ACI configuration, ACI inband management tutorials, ACI Tutorial, APIC, Cisco, Data Center, Data Centre, EPG, In-Band management, inband management, L2 Out, L2out, L3 Out, L3out, Postman, tutorial
Tagged ACI In-Band, ACI inband, API, APIC, APIC In-Band, APIC inband, CLI, In-Band management, In-Band Management Tutorial, inband management, inband management tutorial
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