2016 Briefs

Chronological archive of briefs published in 2016.

December 2016

April 2016

Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms CiscoOpenStackNetworkingVMware

Cisco ACI and OpenStack Integration: RedHat vs Mirantis

Note: This post requires basic knowledge of Cisco ACI architecture and ACI logical elements, as well as understanding of what OpenStack is, what the OpenStack elements (Projects) do, and the principles of what OVS...

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Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms CiscoOpenStackVMwareNetworking

Cisco ACI and OpenStack Integration: RedHat vs Mirantis

Note: This post requires basic knowledge of Cisco ACI architecture and ACI logical elements, as well as understanding of what OpenStack is, what the OpenStack elements (Projects) do, and the principles of what OVS...

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Semantic Engineering & Ontologies CiscoNetworkingVMware

Cisco ACI Service Graph (L4-7), ADC: F5 vs NetScaler

Note: This post requires basic knowledge of Cisco ACI architecture and ACI logical elements, as well as understanding of what ADC is, and the basic principles of Load Balancing and SSL.

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February 2016

Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms CiscoNetworking

Cisco ACI Guide for Humans, Part 2: Upgrade Cisco ACI

Software BIOS: version 07.17 NXOS: version 6.1(2)I3(3a) BIOS compile time: 09/10/2014 NXOS image file is: bootflash:///n9000-dk9.6.1.2.I3.3a.bin NXOS compile time: 1/26/2015 11:00:00 \[01/26/2015 19:45:44\]

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January 2016

Cloud Sovereignty & Platforms CiscoNetworkingVMwareVPCDevOps

Cisco ACI Guide for Humans, Part 1: Physical Connectivity

First of all, I need to explain why I decided to write such a post. It's quite simple to everyone who ever tried to Deploy/Configure/Understand how Cisco ACI works using the official Cisco Documentation.

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