Another Cisco Live went with all its usual new product announcements and marketing drives for the next big thing.
Keeping up with the new releases of the various manufacturers is an important part of the job of every network engineer. Usually it is enough to see the videos available online but from time to time it is necessary to take one more step.
Cisco has released the new Catalyst 9000 family
that integrates with 1/20/2019 12:11:45 PM and ISE to build an SDA network. The Catalyst 9k family, strong of IOS XE, also allows programmability levels not previously possible.
A community value is more than the sum of its members. Cisco Champion
members make it special, I’m honored to be again part of it this year.
I really enjoy discussing network design and deploy details with colleagues, customers and fellow network engineer.
I find these discussions challenging, stimulating. An open, sincere and collaborative discussion gives a chance to better understand the real needs, fears, doubts of other professionals and to validate knowledge, expose gaps and most of all I learn a lot.
This is still valid when discussing Data Center design or simpler topics like how to cable switch stacks.
I’ve been working on a data center migration from regular switches to a Cisco ACI
fabric in the last couple of months. I can’t say that’s enough to be defined as an ACI expert but I’ll share here what I learned from the experience.
The project started with a Network Centric approach
for an one-to-one migration from the previous network. After the migration new VRFs are being created in App Centric mode with contracts.
Beginning June 2017 Cisco introduced the Continuing Education Program as a new way to recertify expert level certifications.
Asset management, documentation and monitoring are important parts of any IT Ops team but at the same time they are boring, repetitive, error prone.
Last summer I spent some time investigating the possibility to integrate open source projects I like to create a Minimum Viable Product for asset management/monitoring and learn something during the process.
Network changes tool to prevent disasters.
This week I’ve attended a training about Cisco ACI DCAC9K
.
Based on my personal experience no training can cover all the topics or all the use cases but I think this training with a cover-to-cover read of Deploying ACI
can help to build the basis to start the ACI journey with strong fundamentals.