Cisco NX-OS
Ensuring Continuous Network Operations with Cisco Nexus Hitless Upgrades
5 min read
Cisco Nexus 9300 Series switches and Cisco NX-OS allow you to perform scheduled maintenance and non-scheduled maintenance without impacting production traffic and critical systems.
EVPN Myth Buster Series – To lead or follow, where does Cisco stand?
6 min read
Over the past several decades, Cisco has demonstrated its leadership in networking by leading technology innovations that meet and exceed customers’ needs and then enabling the adoption of these technologies across organizations, driving standardization.
Extending network operations across data centers, clouds, and regions
1 min read
Nearly every global enterprise is working to improve the integration and automation of their IT resources as well as the speed, efficiency, and consistency of their IT operations.
Cisco MDS 9000 FSPF Link Cost Multiplier: Enhancing Path Selection on High-Speed Storage Networks
5 min read
Cisco supports the design and implementation of high-speed Fibre Channel fabrics, leading a change to the traditional FSPF link cost calculation for 128 Gbps serial interfaces due to the Cisco-only capability to create logical links with up to 16 members.
Continuing our Innovations in Service Chaining with Nexus Enhanced Policy-Based Redirect
3 min read
The new innovations from Cisco ePBR addresses the requirements for service chaining and load balancing between service nodes located across multiple data center fabrics interconnected through VXLAN EVPN Multi-Site architecture.
Dynamic Service Chaining in a Data Center with Nexus Infrastructure
3 min read
In a Nexus 9000 data center, ops teams now have an elegant method to insert service nodes and automatically redirect traffic using predefined rules.
Telemetry in Action: NETCONF and gNMI with a Custom-Built Collector!
7 min read
Model-Driven Telemetry Telemetry is used to subscribe to meaningful data and measurements from remote devices and transport it to a receiving system for monitoring and analysis. This data allows network administrators to proactively visualize their network, and helps them automate tasks and forecast capacity requirements. When we talk about streaming telemetry, we typically refer to […]
Streamline NX-OS fabric deployments with Cisco DCNM and Red Hat Ansible
2 min read
Today I will give an overview of our recent integration between Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) and Red Hat Ansible to streamline NX-OS fabric deployments. Introduction Traditionally in data center network management, configuration was often a manual, error prone process, with an operator going device by device to make changes, with every change requiring […]
Cisco NX-OS and Telegraf for Pervasive Network Visibility
2 min read
Today’s networks operate at a scale where visibility is even more important for efficient operations, and legacy monitoring solutions simply do not meet the requirements. Customers want an open, reliable, and scalable method to gather data, via a model based interface, that can be easily consumed and integrated into their broader monitoring infrastructure.