Data Centers are in news again and this time it is Microsoft’s Data Center and this time it is bigger than that time when a submarine-like data center was submerged in the sea by the researchers. The submerged rack is sunken in special engineered fluid in Microsoft Data Center situated in Quincy, Washington. This has […]
Knowing tcpdump is an essential skill that will come in handy for any System Administrator, Network Engineer, and security professional. Tcpdump is an immensely powerful command-line interface packet sniffer. It must be launched as root or with superuser rights because of its use of the promiscuous mode or to be sure to have sufficient privileges […]
Database Replication plays a wide role if you have a call manager cluster environment. It should function properly to provide uninterrupted services to the users. How to check the DB Replication status of your Call Manager Cluster? At first, we will have to run command Check the output and verify if Cluster Replication State contains […]
CISCO ISE Introduction: CISCO Identity Services Engine is a prominent NAC and identity grounded solution from cisco which provides a solution to streamline security policy management, reduce operating costs, and dispenses a single network access policy plan all over the organization amalgamating multiple services. It is a type of policy platform that permits you to […]
Why Should You Need To Know About CISCO ACI? For a very long period, Data Center Industry has been using the legacy 3 Tier Data Center Network Architecture. These legacy networks were mostly network-centric. Today, traditions have mostly changed and over the last few years, the industry saw big data centers moving towards Software Defined […]
To understand various load balancing methods, we will first know about the servers i.e., virtual server and a real server. This will help us to decide which load-balancing method will be most preferable in the network and then according to services, we can apply a suitable load balancing method for each virtual server. What is […]
Have you ever stumbled upon a VxRail deployment and you do not have a systematic approach on how to install a VxRail cluster? Do not worry we have got you covered! VxRail deployments can be very daunting if pre-requisites are not met properly. VxRail cluster is a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure that can be built with at […]
Why do we need Data Center Modernization? In Today’s competitive business every organization is coming with more innovations and they are trying to reduce the timeline for Go to Market. Unfortunately, only a few organizations are winning the battle because of their back-end infrastructure which was not optimized for Availability, Scalability, Reliability Performance & Automation […]
We will briefly explain about Cisco CIMC and how update and upgrade are used interchangeably but have different meanings. This will further explain: What to expect when you want to upgrade your CIMC device, Why should one do so, What are the challenges, What are the steps or procedure? How these are different from the […]
VXLAN is the extension of VLAN, and it stands for Virtual Extension Local Area Network. This is an encapsulation protocol that provides the virtual L2 tunnel connection over the L3 Underlay.We need this protocol because it resolves:• Mobility (VMs can move anywhere from one data center to another location without any changes)• Scalability (VLAN 4K […]