Nexus Dashboard 4.1 (now general availability) enables complete lifecycle management of multiple data center networks through a single unified interface. This unified solution streamlines provisioning, offers comprehensive visibility, and enables proactive and reactive diagnostics while delivering robust automation and minimizing the attack surface across data center perimeters.
This blog post addresses some of the common areas of confusion and concern, and touches on a few best practices for maximizing the value of using Cisco Nexus 9000 switches for Data Center fabric deployments by leveraging the available Intelligent Buffering capabilities.
With the growing complexity of the modern network, automation is becoming more important. NETCONF is one of the widely adopted protocols by networking vendors and customers among all programming interfaces. Alongside NETCONF, YANG provides a powerful, standardized modeling language to complement the NETCONF protocol. In practice, interoperability between service orchestrator and network devices provides flexible mix-and-match solutions based on customer's deployment choice.
In today’s world, multicast senders and receivers are not limited to a single network. They can be spread across enterprise and data center locations. Multicast can be generated or consumed anywhere and can be present in various security contexts - be it a tenant of VXLAN EVPN -based data center or within a traditional IP multicast network.
