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Cisco ACI's Core Building Blocks: Tenants to EPGs Explained
In the world of modern data centers, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) stands out as a powerful solution for network automation, policy enforcement, and application agility.
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Understanding Cisco ACI Access Policies: A Practical Guide
Understanding Cisco ACI Access Policies doesn’t have to be complicated. This practical guide simplifies the core concepts and clearly shows you what you need to know.
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Designing with Cisco ACI
Welcome to “Designing with Cisco ACI,” where we will dive into the Cisco ACI principals of creating robust, scalable, and efficient network architectures using Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).
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Unlocking the Power of Cisco ACI 6.0
The Cisco ACI 6.0 release has been available for a couple of months now. Let’s check out what it brings to network engineers and IT professionals. Experience a new era of enhanced performance, security, and automation capabilities. In this blog, we’ll dive into the key enhancements of Cisco ACI 6.0 and explore how they can empower your network infrastructure.
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Mastering Cisco ACI Physical Design
Let's dive into the world of Cisco ACI physical design. After all, we all know that without hardware, there is no cloud or networking.
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Cisco ACI Fabric - APIC Day 1 configuration
This time I will go through configuration steps for provisioning switches on Cisco ACI Fabric, NTP, DNS and BGP Route Reflectors. Steps described in this post are applicable for Cisco ACI Fabric and Cisco ACI simulator.
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Cisco ACI Simulator APIC Initial setup
If you already read my last post How to run Cisco ACI Simulator on KVM host you know that now we need to do first step and go through Cisco APIC initial configuration setup. If you need help this post is right place for you. So let' go and see what we need to do.
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How to run Cisco ACI Simulator on KVM host
As officially ACI Simulator is not supported on KVM host and I didn't have ESXi in my lab I have decided to do experiment. Moreover I have played with amount of hardware resource necessary for this experiment. If you would like to know result of this experiment, you can proceed and read rest of the post.
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Five easy steps to configure static VxLAN Part 4
Part 4 final countdown with static VxLAN. In this post I will cover the case when we need to extend L2 domain between Data centers. According to this VxLAN tunnel will be established between two DC gateways and DC gateways will represent VTEPs.
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Five easy steps to configure static VxLAN Part 3
In Part 3 I will cover the case when Cumulus VX virtual switch is playing the role of DC edge gateway as well as interconnect between underlay and overlay network. On Cumulus virtual switch two VxLAN tunnels will be terminated from remote servers.
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Five easy steps to configure static VxLAN Part 2
In Part 2 will be covered the case when we have physical DB server connected to network via L2/L3 switch and it should communicate with application running inside virtual machine. Nvidia Cumulus VX virtual switch will play the role of L2/L3 switch. On Cumulus virtual switch VxLAN tunnel be terminated from remote server.
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Five easy steps to configure static VxLAN Part 1
In this blog post I will cover static VxLAN tunnels, it means no multicast flood and learning or BGP with EVPN signalling. Part 1 will cover “Static VxLAN tunnels between two Linux hosts” and you could have guessed already that there will be Part 2 and Part 3, or even more, who knows. Future subjects of blog posts will be kept secret for now.😉
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