In this article the author looks at connecting to a virtual machine management system. In the previous article I wrote on Cisco ACI I referenced the Quickstart guide found in the APIC under System>>Quickstart. I wrote about the second step, configuring user accounts. I also wrote an article about creating basic network constructs, such as…
n this article I’ll go through the ACI equivalent, which is creating tenants, contexts, and bridge domains that will help us get ACI up and running. Cisco ACI has a few basic network constructs that need to be created when first being set up. This could be considered more of a day 1 setup and…
One thing I really like about the ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) APIC (Application Policy Infrastructure Controller) GUI is how helpful it is. There are several products out there that have used the idea of putting a Quick Start within their product on the welcome pages such as VMware SRM and Zenoss, and now the APIC…
Introduction A few weeks ago I started a new path in my career. I’m now working for Cisco as a Technology Evangelist. Specifically I’m concentrating on Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and the Nexus 9000 series switches. As software defined networking becomes more popular and even necessary, I’ll be writing about my journey learning ACI and…
Like many networking platforms Cisco ACI offers the ability to have multiple tenants. A tenant is generally a container that allows you to keep resources isolated. For example I might have tenants for dev and prod or I might have separate tenants for each department in my company. Usually public cloud providers will have a…
Ch-ch-ch-changes – the theme of the VMworld keynote on Monday, August 25th 2014. Robin Matlock, CMO at VMware, opened the keynote as she did the year before. While I think it’s terrific VMware has a woman open the conference, it would be nice if she could be somewhat technical. She made pithy comments such as…
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a brand new way of networking that allows network engineers and architects to not only implement network virtualization within their data center, but also manage their physical network from the same management console. For more information please see my previous article here or check out the Cisco documentation here.…
I, along with seemingly everyone else, am jumping on the automation bandwagon as much as I possibly can. There are a ton of options out there from vendors and then several open-source(ish) solutions out there as well. In this article I’m going to go through what it takes to get started with SaltStack (or Salt for short).…
VMware has been getting involved with the OpenStack project over the last couple of years. They’ve created Hands On Labs geared towards OpenStack as well as creating the VOVA virtual appliance to make it easier for VMware administrators to get started with OpenStack. The VOVA appliance is not meant to be used in production. It…
n the previous installment of my series about configuring theCisco UCS B-Series blade servers and chassis, we finally got toconfigure the necessary pools in order to start creating service profiles, which is what I’ll cover in this article. You can think of a service profile as the personality that gets assigned to the server. It will dictate…