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Robert Burns · 06-13-2024

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Robert Burns · 05-08-2018

This week we're excited to have Ramses Smeyers (Principle Engineer) to give you a basic introduction into Ansible and the ACI automation use-case. Once understood, we will see how to apply this automation language on ACI to automate day-2 operatio...

Robert Burns · 12-07-2016

This video covers an overview of ACI microsegmentation (uSeg) using the VMware vDS including deployment demo, and troubleshooting. We will also discuss the specific requirements & configuration necessary when using ESX hosts running on blade switch...

Robert Burns · 10-31-2016

Below is a sample naming convention I came up with that you're free to use. We find it helps make your policies identification much easy when you implement a solid naming system. Below are a few select policy example to get you started. Attachab...

Robert Burns · 06-29-2016

Attached are instructions to disable LLDP on the Cisco VIC which, if enabled, will prevent an APIC from successfully joining an ACI fabric.

Robert Burns · 08-26-2024

Upgrade the APIC cluster to a supported release (5.2(3) or later or 6.1(1) or later , then introduce the new spines. Robert

Robert Burns · 08-20-2024

Also keep in mind there is no SW or HW support on these devices when you repurpose them with a different OS image. Additionally, there's limited support from VMware on these older platforms (Gen2 APICs are based on UCS M4 C-series, which will suppor...

Robert Burns · 08-20-2024

ACI will raise a fault related to Atomic Counters for traffic forwarded from one VPC peer to another vPC peer. This occurs because the vPC peer receiving the packet thinks the packet originated on the switch locally since it owns the source ip addres...

Robert Burns · 08-13-2024

@Ezzedine there's no problem with using FC/FCoE in ACI - it will be supported on the existing platforms that support FC/FCoE for their lifespan, it's just not a technology we are continuing with on new Nexus platforms. There are 3 remaining switches...

Robert Burns · 08-02-2024

Suggest you take a look at this session: https://www.ciscolive.com/on-demand/on-demand-library.html?zid=pp&search.event=1681761517718001tBvw&search=application%20centric%20design#/session/1686177759528001VUsN There's lots of material available that g...

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Sample ACI Polcy Naming Convention

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