Have you thought about seeing or visualizing OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, VRF and more on your network with a simple, color-coded view on your computer screen? Recently I shared with you a network visualization tool called nuVML that can be used [...]
NetApp is a company makes storage applications based on commodity hardware and proprietary software that aims making managing vast amount of storage easy. The entire storage system is optimized from the OS level to its management interface. Because of its [...]
You can run the Cisco VIRL lab on a workstation or laptop. There are two options - installing VIRL as a native OS, or installing VIRL as a virtual machine running on top of your existing OS. In this tutorial [...]
The Pro version of VMware Fusion has more features and greater flexibilities compared to the standard version. When working with VIRL, the Pro version provides a GUI interface for creating virtual networks required by VIRL, whereas Fusion does not. There [...]
What is Cisco ACI fabric forwarding? The Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) allows applications to define the network infrastructure. It is one of the most important aspects in Software Defined Network or SDN. The ACI architecture simplifies, optimizes, and accelerates [...]
As virtualization technologies become mature, with the support of super-fast, extremely robust server hardware, everything seems can be virtualized. In a modern datacenter, you’ll see the entire IT infrastructure being virtualized, including servers, workstations, network devices, storage, PBX and so [...]