This is a place holder page for my latest Cisco ACI/HPE Synergy InterOp decks. Cisco ACI/HPE Synergy Tunnel mode InterOp Configuration

I’d like to share one Synergy OneView CLI I have been working on. https://hjma29.github.io/ovcli/ The tool is about 10M bytes and can be used on windows/Linux/MAC platform. If you are IT admin and just want to run the tool without worrying about install any programming dependencies, you can download .exe file from the web directly. Another option...

When connecting Cisco ACI fabric with HPE blade servers through HPE Virtual Connect Modules, users should pay additional attention when working with VC tunnel networks. Both ACI and VC tunnel mode has some unique internal traffic forwarding mechanism when comparing with traditional L2 MAC forwarding method. This blog intends to highlight one scenario...

From time to time, customers will want to configure Virtual Connect PVLAN in order to work with their Cisco or VMware environment. Virtual Connect has a checkbox for private network when you configure a “vnet” (internal vlan). However, it’s not the same thing as the PVLAN you find in Cisco Catalyst, Nexus switches or VMware VDS. I developed this deck...

From time to time, customers will want to configure Virtual Connect PVLAN in order to work with their Cisco or VMware environment. Virtual Connect has a checkbox for private network when you configure a “vnet” (internal vlan). However, it’s not the same thing as the PVLAN you find in Cisco Catalyst, Nexus switches or VMware VDS. I developed this deck...

This presentation highlights how to configure Nexus1000v with Virtual Connect. The presentation can be downloaded here. Nexus1000v VSM deployment design for Virtual Connect is the same as general Cisco recommendation. However, two points need to be pointed out related with Virtual Connect environment. (It’d be much better to review presentation first...