I created a live demo showing some cool capabilities of the Aviatrix Cloud Networking Platform. In this demo I play the role of a SaaS provider that onboards new customers via VPN, and needs to meet the following requirements: Easily onboard new customers even if their IP addressing overlaps with the SaaS provider. Provide...

Miscellaneous notes on Aviatrix. Usually updated on Fridays. New and updated notes are placed at the top. Updating the Aviatrix Controller IAM Policy: When deploying the Aviatrix controller in AWS for the first time, the AWS CloudFormation template that launched your controller may not have the most current IAM policy definitions for the...

It’s time to get things cranking here again and a big topic is going to be enterprise cloud networking. What I mean by that in simple terms is how an enterprise can use the networking services of cloud providers to build, migrate, and run their most important applications in any cloud. Over the last 6 years a lot has happened in the shift to public...

Hey! Cisco Nexus peeps! What could possibly be more fun than connecting your awesome new NSX gear to your Cisco Nexus gear? For the life of me I really don’t know.  All right then. Lets do it! Lets kick things off with this email question I received from a reader. “Hi Brad, In our environment […]

This year I had the honor and privilege to co-present a session at VMworld 2014 with my esteemed colleague Scott Lowe.  As many of you know, Scott is a celebrity at VMworld.  He’s one of the most famous virtualization bloggers and the author of many best selling books on VMware vSphere. Together, we presented what […]

Are you stuck in the middle of a battle to choose VMware NSX or Cisco ACI?  In this post I’ll attempt to bring some clarity and strategic guidance in first choosing the right path, then propose how the two technologies can co-exist.  I’ll start with the message below from a reader asking for my opinion […]