My 100th Post!!

Some milestones are very tough to achieve, even though you know that a small step can get you there but taking that small step is sometimes very difficult. Reaching this 100th post is somewhat the same experience for me. I have taken many months to write my 100th Post , I could not figure out… Read More My 100th Post!!

AWS VPC : Troubleshooting Network connectivity with Resource-MAP

Recently while working on VPCs I have seen this new option in amazon VPC. Resource-map provides an object map for VPC elements. Like below, it tells that my private and public subnet has route table association and if that route table has an external connectivity with igw or not. It is very useful information while… Read More AWS VPC : Troubleshooting Network connectivity with Resource-MAP

FlexPod your DC with Cisco and NetApp collaboration

I was in CiscoLive 2023 Amsterdam and I got to visit this really cool product called FlexPod. This single rack has your Compute, storage, Network(Nexus switches) and Fabric interconnects(FI). Who wouldn’t like having something like this in their datacenter. Since the day all these individual techs and boxes are available, people are looking to integrate… Read More FlexPod your DC with Cisco and NetApp collaboration

Quick Network Automation post on Cisco NSO Compliance Reporting.

What is compliance reporting. Network Configuration compliance is very important for all business entities for various purposes like external or internal audits, maintaining standards within the org etc. However, it is not that easy to maintain the uniformly complaint configuration when you have thousands of devices scattered globally serving in different business domains. In compliance… Read More Quick Network Automation post on Cisco NSO Compliance Reporting.

GNS3 LAB Cisco : Nexus 9000v Control-plane based VxLAN BGP-EVPN Bridging Config and Verification.

I wrote few blogs on BGP EVPN and also on VxLAN earlier. My previous blogs were focused on IOS-XE and IOS-XR devices, recently I have started my Data Center journey and hence I wanted to do some labs on Nexus devices as well and what better place than GNS3 for this ? I got to… Read More GNS3 LAB Cisco : Nexus 9000v Control-plane based VxLAN BGP-EVPN Bridging Config and Verification.

GNS3 Cisco LAB : Nexus 9000v NxOS VxLAN Lab and concept.

I have written a few blogs earlier on VxLAN. You can check them in the below links. ASR1000 : VxLAN Unicast mode Configuration and Verification ASR1000: Cisco Vxlan Multicast Mode Configuration and Verification Since then VxLAN has changed a lot and I am planning to write a series of articles on VxLAN and EVPN on… Read More GNS3 Cisco LAB : Nexus 9000v NxOS VxLAN Lab and concept.