VIRL
Preparing to Automate a New Data Center for DevNet Sandbox
You don’t need to look hard to see that DevNet is growing, and as DevNet grows, DevNet Sandbox must grow. DevNet Sandbox provides engineers and developers access to Cisco, partner, and open source infrastructure, and software as a service from “the cloud.” For a variety of reasons…
Plan, Test, Deploy: The Best Ways to Prevent Network Outages
Get your free DevNet account for access to our developer resources, learning labs, and sandbox. Chances are, if you are in engineering, you have been involved in an outage at some stage in your career – be this your current role or a former role. No one likes the unexpected wake-up calls at 01…
virl up – NetDevOps Network Simulation Done Right
Are you ready to have your mind blown by something so cool you’ll wonder how you lived without it before? Of course you are… so without further a-do let me introduce you to virlutils, the NetDevOps command line tool for Cisco VIRL and Cisco CML. If you are not familiar with VIRL or CML,…
Using Cisco VIRL with Additional Components
One of the things we tend to do as networking people is test configurations to see if things work the way we think they will. Case in point, I just had a talk with a fellow Champion, Teren Bryson (@someclown) and he was telling me how he used VIRL to prove a concept to a customer that didn’t think s…
So You Want to be a Network Engineer. Here’s Where You Should Start!
First lets talk about what a Network Engineer is. According to The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. Retrieved April 27, 2015, from Dictionary.com website a Network Engineer is: “A high-level LAN /WAN technician who plans, implements and supports network solutions between multiple platforms. A n…
#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 4. VIRL
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’ll be talking with Cisco Distinguished Engineer Joel Obstfeld about VIRL. Our Cisco Champion guest hosts are Brad Haynes and Scott Morris. Listen to the Podcast. Learn about the Cisco Champions Program HERE. See a…
IPv6 in the Cisco Live World of Solutions
Just recently I wrote about the IPv6 enabled logo program here at the Cisco Live 2014 World of Solutions (WoS). It is now time to share some of the results! In what follows I will say that I did not have enough time to exhaustively visit every single demonstration in the WoS. My time there was confi…
Get Inspired by Cisco Live Europe 2014
Cisco Live Europe 2014 (Milan) just ended and I think I will need a few days to reorganize my ideas. It was my first opportunity to attend #CLEUR, and moreover I did it as a CCIE. CLEUR is not just a Cisco event (or should I say THE Cisco event) but also a unique opportunity to experience technology…
VIRL Saves the Day!
One of the themes of my posts is that the overall ONE strategy, including virtualisation, would create an environment for network systems development that would meet the expectations of systems developers accustomed to the “enterprise” style of software development. An enterprise systems developer e…
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