At times I have trouble focusing on writing articles for some of the presentations I am exposed to at Tech Field Day. Because of that, I really wanted to try something different. This article is more of my free-formed thoughts about NSX and why I’m excited to deploy it at my current $job. From the […]
Networking Field Day 15 – A new delegate emerges
Yet again I find myself honored, and questioning their selection methods, by being selected for a Networking Field Day event. Networking Field Day 15 kicks off April 6 and 7th in San Jose California. Each and every Tech Field Day event is always an amazing opportunity to engage with vendors and industry peers. But trust […]
Installing VMware tools on Cisco ACS
As of ACS v5.4 Cisco has finally included VMware tools for their ADE OS. Unfortunately, when you upgrade, they do not get installed automatically as the installation is triggered during the initial install. This post is for those of us that have upgraded to version 5.4 and didn’t choose to do a fresh install. First […]
Introduction to the Nexus 1000V
The Nexus 1000V is a software-based Cisco NX-OS switch that integrates into VMware vSphere 4 and operates inside the VMware ESX hypervisor. With the 1000V your virtual servers have the same network configuration, security policy, and diagnostic tools as your physical servers. VMware has also certified it to be compatible with vSphere, vCenter ESX and […]
JunOS Olive Demonstration
As a follow up to my JunOS Olive tutorial, I made a demonstration video that shows Multicast functioning via OSPF to another Olive and an ImageStream VM. Tony MattkeNetwork engineer turned management currently servicing the enterprise data center market. I started working on networks in the ’90s and still feel like that was just a […]
Running JunOS under VMWare (updated – again!)
Interested in trying out JunOS? Can’t afford to build a real Juniper lab? Sounds like you need some Olives. No, we’re not talking about the green fruit commonly seen in a martini glasses across the nation. Olive is the codename name given to JunOS software running on something other than a Juniper router. It can […]