ACI, Blog, Data Center, Videos
April 26, 2022
In part 3 of my series on ACI, I dive into the extended ACI topologies that are used when you are taking an ACI infrastructure beyond the data center to remote or branch locations. In this video, I cover Remote Read more…
October 1, 2021
In part 2 of my Cisco ACI videos, we are pushing policy to the data center network through the ACI configuration. In this section, I cover the logical elements of ACI and how to configure them to set the policy Read more…
September 10, 2021
This is the first of a multi-part video covering the Cisco Data Center software defined networking solution, Cisco ACI. This is a look as to what Cisco ACI is and how it fits into data center networking infrastructure. As a Read more…
July 29, 2021
Welcome to Part 2 of my VXLAN videos. In this video I walk through deploying VXLAN onto a network of Cisco Nexus 9000 switches. The switches are arranged in a Spine-Leaf Topology common to today’s data center architecture. During the Read more…
July 9, 2021
In this video , I provide an intro to VXLAN, a critical component of data center networks, and the foundation of software defined networking. I break down what VXLAN is, how it works and what happens to the data frames Read more…
September 29, 2020
Ten years ago, I first saw Cisco UCS and I instantly saw it as a great compute system for the data center. Since then, we’ve seen the rise of stateless computing which created a game changing transformation of the data Read more…
September 9, 2019
The software defined networking infrastructure of Cisco ACI requires that we take a different approach to the logical hierarchy of the network. ACI contains six logical elements that you need to understand when building out your data center network. They Read more…
