TLDR: Enable IP Aging fabric wide. Welcome one and all to my guide on not hating yourself. Let’s talk about the problem, you’re running ACI (great!) and your team decides they want highly available Microsoft SQL clusters (also, great!). Initially, these clusters do exactly what they say on the tin,…
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Using VXLAN to extend my home lab
So first off, I recently had a change of heart. While I still love Service Provider, I’m continually being pulled in for Security work. So, I’ve decided to stop resisting and follow the current. That said, CCIE Security (both v4 and v5) have some heavy demands. While my home server…
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How to Deploy Nexus 1000v for KVM
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VXLAN Revisited – CSR1KV Lab
So a while back I did a video on labing out VXLAN within GNS3, using my good friend the CSR1000v. I got a fair number of views on the video (for me), but one person in the comments pointed out… I’d never actually done a write up on this topic.…
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Let’s talk about ACI – Cisco’s SDN vision.
So everyone keeps saying “SDN is the future!! Network Engineers beware!!”, and it’s been a few years but generally my reply to that remains the same. “Meh.” I’ll save my general SDN opinions for another post. This post is about Cisco ACI, and all the fantastic fail that it is.…
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VXLAN and GNS3!!!
This isn’t going to be a super long blog post, but I just wanted to quickly add my recent videos :-). Install CSR1000v into Virtualbox, and integrating with GNS3 And VXLAN in GNS3