Heavy Networking | April 15, 2016
Show 284: Design & Build 10: Data Center Fabric
Ethan
Banks
Greg
Ferro
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Welcome to the Packet Pushers Weekly show – another Design & Build edition. In this show, we’ll talk through a business problem and solution that led our guest to, in this case, installing Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation.
You’ve heard of DFA on Packet Pushers before. If you look back in the archives, Cisco sponsored shows 207 and 233 to talk about the product. So if you’re looking for the Cisco point of view on Dynamic Fabric Automation, give those shows a listen.
In this show, we’ll talk about DFA, but we’re going to talk about a lot of other things along the way. Strap in.
Our guest today is Tom Grisham, a grizzled veteran of the networking wars. He’ll share his experiences, both good and bad, with DFA and a lot more.
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Thank you guys again for the show and opportunity.
Tom
Packetpushers’ Team:
Ten (!) shows in to the Design and Build series, and you keep allowing us to continually learn even more about IT, networks, People and concepts.
Thank you and Mr Grisham for this most interesting episode about fabrics in the Data Centre. Your sharing of insight is most appreciated.
Please keep it up. I am most grateful for the shows in your network, and this series, in particular. Too much networking (and wisdom sharing) would indeed never be enough.
Cheers from Italy,
Karsten Speckmann
Great show! Tom, thanks for the insight. It is always interesting to hear people’s experiences with real world deployments.
Just want to mention real quick – a couple of times you guys mentioned FHRP filtering and OTV. While they do work together quite well, FHRP filtering is by no means a feature of OTV. It’s a simple ACL on the interface, so you can do it on a L2 trunk if you want.
http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/fhrp-egress-path-optimization-from-the-server-to-the-client – this blog post has a link to a Cisco doc that has some config examples.