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IntroductionPacker is an open source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images ...

SDN Overview Software defined networking can be defined as a new approach to design, implement and manage networks that is based on the concept of separating the network control plane and data plane, where the control plane provides an abstracted cen...

Introduction This guide is to provide example steps via the CIMC Web interface on how expand a Virtual Drive (VD) by adding additional physical drives. Requirements: UCS C series M4 generation server 2.0(10) or higher CIMC firmware version 12Gb LSI r...

Recommended for customers on ACI releases 4.2(7r) and above or 5.2(3g) and above.   Are you tired of manually gathering ACI logs and tech-support data? To this day, the process of gathering ACI logs and uploading them to your TAC case was cumbersome ...

Hello all! There is a 2nd Edition of the "Troubleshooting Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure" which has been mainly available via PDF since the beginning of 2020: "Troubleshooting Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, 2nd Edition" PDF   As ...

  Cisco accelerates hybrid cloud operations with innovations from Intersight, HyperFlex, UCS X-Series, and Nexus Cloud     Intersight Infographic: Cisco Intersight cloud operations platform Rethink cloud operations with Cisco Intersight. See how this...

Symptoms After connecting Cisco Secure Network Analytics (Stealthwatch) UDP Director to Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, you may experience loss of connectivity to some endpoints that are connected to the ACI fabric. The issue may be persist...

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Today we are going to talk about how to configure backups in the Cisco ACI APIC Dashboard. As you might know APIC is a UCS based CIMC controller and we can check the configuration backups on the Cisco ACI APIC Dashboard. Remember that the HA solution...

I. Introduction II. Postman 1. What is Postman? 2. To download Postman III. Distinguish Name and Managed Object IV. Logging to ACI with Postman 1. Define Your Variables 2. Create Collections 3. Create New Request To Login To APIC V. Creating Simple T...

There have been a few discussions on the forum lately about installing ACI Simulator v5.x - and in particular the amount of RAM etc required. [the 5.2(3f) version of the Sim can be downloaded here]The Cisco ACI Simulator VM Installation Guide has bee...

Announcing New Intersight, X-Series and HyperFlex Innovations to support new applications and use cases as customers modernize their infrastructure and cloud operations across hybrid cloud environments.    Register now to learn more about the latest ...

Introduction Service profile Overview Service profile types   IntroductionEvery server that is provisioned in the Cisco Unified Computing System is specified by a service profile. A service profile is a software definition of a server and its LAN and...

Summary: ========== From Vsphere Version 6.6 onwards Basic LACP is not supported, this post is to go through the steps required for the Enhanced LACP configuration when using VMM integration with ACI.    To configure Enhanced LACP please make sure th...

I. Introduction 1. Verify Python Installed 2. Download the acicobra and acimodel 3. Install the acicobra and acimodel 4. Verify the installation of acicobra and acimodel III. Setting Up Arya 1. Arya Installation 2. Verify Arya IV. Provisioning ACI Te...