In this article I expose my study notes on the VXLAN technology with the Nexus 9000 product family, in both NX-OS and ACI mode. What is the purpose of VXLAN? Any network engineer can tell that we have a limitation with VLANs: we can have a maximum of 4094 unique VLANs on a single layer … Read more Understand Basic VXLAN Concepts
I gather in this blog post different networking definitions a network engineer may encounter (or may not, what a shame, LOL) in his journey. It will be a short article but bare with me, there are tricky nuances! Layer 2 domain the network formed by the sum total of switches, hubs and any layer 2 … Read more A Thousand-Dollar Networking Definitions
Introduction An XML Sitemap is required to allow search engines to easily crawl and index your blog. As a full-time network engineer and hobby blogger, I had not much time to build my own sitemap. So, like all blog folks out there, I used plugins to generate it. This article shows you how a simple … Read more How a Mere XML Sitemap Error Revealed A Shocking Fact
The command show run system displays hardware information about the switches in the fabric, as well as the TEP pool subnet mask: The same information can be drawn graphically:
Ever wondered about software-defined data centers? Well I guess you experimented a bit with VMware Workstation sometime in your networking journey. If not, then I hope you have heard of VMware vSphere, because in the following short article I expose my study notes on the topic. Terminology Having experimented with VMware Workstation in my college … Read more Interesting Facts On VMware vSphere
In this article I expose my review of the Shift8 CDN solution, based on my own experience. What is Shift8? Shift8 is a provider of a free CDN solution that is compatible with WordPress. The company is based in Toronto. Their CDN solution is relies currently on a handful of servers which are located around … Read more Shift8 CDN Review