Enhancing Firewall Policy in ACI using FMC Endpoint Update 1.3 App

October 15, 2021

Defining and maintaining a firewall policy can quickly become a challenge in a fluid software-defined data center.  Luckily, some good orchestration between controllers can get us further along.  FMC (Firepower Management Center) Endpoint Update App, in the 1.3 version posted on dcappcenter helps us define a better firewall policy by providing up-to-date FMC Network Objects … More Enhancing Firewall Policy in ACI using FMC Endpoint Update 1.3 App

Nexus Dashboard 2.1 – New Features – Federated Clusters

September 20, 2021

Nexus Dashboard 2.1 has incorporated a lot of New Features/Improvements.  In this write-up, I will primarily discuss the Federated Nexus Dashboard configuration, why use it and also discuss some of other underlying improvements/changes.  I will also show how to send API calls to Nexus Dashboard Federated Clusters to get Federation Related Information. Installing ND is … More Nexus Dashboard 2.1 – New Features – Federated Clusters

Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 4 (using Openstack Integrated ACI)

September 17, 2021

Contributors:  Soumitra Mukherji and Alec ChamberlainWith Expert Guidance from: Filip Wardzichowski If you followed Part 1 through 3, you should have a OpenStack / ACI integrated fabric ready to use. part 1: General discussion of Openstack and ACI integration part 2: showed how to do the integration using packstack part 3: showed how to do … More Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 4 (using Openstack Integrated ACI)

Installing AppDynamics and Integrating with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights

September 14, 2021

With the release of NDI 5.0, Cisco added the ability to integrate the NDI platform with other 3rd party monitoring applications. The first integration supported was AppDynamics. With AppDynamics you can feed in your application monitoring to the NDI dashboard to provide further information to aid in monitoring and troubleshooting specific issues with the application running … More Installing AppDynamics and Integrating with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights

Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 2 ( installing with packstack)

September 13, 2021

Contributors:  Soumitra Mukherji and Alec ChamberlainWith Expert Guidance from: Filip Wardzichowski In Part 1 of this article, we discussed that I would write 4 parts for this. Part 1:  General Discussion of Openstack / ACI Integration Part 2: Guided Install for Openstack/ACI with Opensource CentOS7  or with RedHat Registered CentOS7 using packstack (works but unsupported,  … More Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 2 ( installing with packstack)

Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 3 (installing using Red Hat Director)

September 11, 2021

Contributors:  Soumitra Mukherji and Alec ChamberlainWith Expert Guidance from: Filip Wardzichowski In Part 1 of this article, we discussed that I would write 4 parts for this. Part 1:  General Discussion of Openstack / ACI Integration Part 2: Guided Install for Openstack/ACI with Opensource CentOS7  or with RedHat Registered CentOS7 using packstack (works but unsupported,  … More Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 3 (installing using Red Hat Director)

Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 1 (General Discussions of Openstack with ACI)

September 9, 2021

Contributors:  Soumitra Mukherji and Alec ChamberlainWith Expert Guidance from: Filip Wardzichowski If you have been using ACI as your data center fabric and you are like most enterprise customers, you probably have ACI integrated VMM domain and are reaping the benefits of that.  ACI also integrates seamlessly with Openstack creating a Openstack VMM domain.  For … More Openstack with ACI Integration – Part 1 (General Discussions of Openstack with ACI)

Cloud ACI 5.2: AWS Enhancements in TGW with TGW Connect Attachments

June 22, 2021

Cloud ACI 5.2 for AWS can now use TGW Connect Attachment to enhance the previous ACI/AWS integration.  You can read more about what we had pre cAPIC 5.2 by using only TGW VPC attachment at a previous writeup. Before we start discussing and showing how TGW Connect Attachment benefits this integration, let’s quickly discuss what … More Cloud ACI 5.2: AWS Enhancements in TGW with TGW Connect Attachments

Cloud ACI 5.2: ACI/Azure Tenant vNET Peering across Azure Acitive Directories

June 21, 2021

From Cloud APIC 5.2 you can configure Tenant vNET peerings across Azure Active Directories. This will be very useful for B2B connectivity. Prior to this tenant vNET peerings for Azure using cAPIC was only possible across subscriptions in the same Azure Active Directory. To Follow along this Proof Of Concept Lab in your own Azure … More Cloud ACI 5.2: ACI/Azure Tenant vNET Peering across Azure Acitive Directories