Posts By Benoit

Masters Partenaires Datacenter (Cisco France)

J'ai eu l'occasion de participer cette semaine aux Masters Data Center dans les nouveaux locaux de Cisco France à Paris. L'occasion de faire le point avec les "technical solution architect" français sur les produits Data Center, de voir quelques deep dives, packet walks, et les roadmaps des produits à venir en 2024. Je profite donc de cette occasion pour dépoussiérer ce blog :) Au programme du mercredi : Nouveautés et update ACI Update produit : pourquoi évolution 400G/800G NXOS / Read more [...]

Building a Cisco ACI Lab

This article is a summary of the best solutions to practice Cisco ACI before using it in a production environment. Read more [...]

HowTo Parse log records of ACI APIC

Every time I have to search for something inside the Event menu of the Cisco APIC, I'm complaining about the lack of search options... That's why I developed this Python script to parse everything easily and quickly. Read more [...]

Cisco ACI L4-L7 Service-Graph One-Arm mode PBR with Fortinet Firewall

I just launched my first youtube video where I configure and deploy a Cisco ACI Service graph with Policy Based Redirect. I'm using the VMM domain integration, and I'm redirecting the flows between two VMs (client and server) from two different EPGs into a Fortinet VM64 Firewall. Please comment the video if you have any question, but first, go put a like on the video ;) Read more [...]

What are the Endpoint Security Groups (ESGs) of ACI ?

You should have noticed the release 5.0(1) of Cisco ACI last week, it introduces a few new features among which we can find the Endpoint Security Groups (ESGs). Read more [...]