Tag: OTV

When you have two datacenters, you need the right plan for Datacenter Interconnection. Here’s a summary of the common options.

This blog is about Good Links I've come across recently, as of 10/14/2013. Admittedly, some are older links, in some cases ones I already knew about. Topics include FabricPath, OTV, ASA Cluster on Nexus, VPC, VXLAN, DFA (Dynamic Fabric Automation), ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure), and VMware/Nicira NSX. For VXLAN, I'm…

I hope you are not thinking, "What's this about OTV and DCI needing defenses?" But if this question puzzles you, this blog is for you. The purpose of this blog is to make sure everyone (who reads this) is aware, Data Center Interconnect (DCI) techniques, and in particular OTV, do not…

What is the future of Disaster Recovery? That’s the obvious question after my blog on https://netcraftsmen.com/blogs/entry/improving-disaster-recovery.html. To recapitulate, that blog concluded that by doing datacenter basics well, we can help [...]

OTV Best Practices have come to the forefront lately. Various sites are starting to implement OTV. The ones I’m aware of to date are aware they are taking a minor [...]

I have been looking at OTV (Overlay Transport Virtualization) designs to support an organization I will call Delta. [Note: I've using a mix of the old U.S. Navy Radio Alphabet and the Nato Phonetic Alphabet to generate company names...]Delta wants to extend 4 or 5 VLANs from their data center…

The topic of Data Center Interconnect at L2, and failover between data centers, seems to be a hot topic! I’d like to briefly note some of the great interaction that’s [...]

This blog provides a link to the CMUG presentation on Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) I gave in Columbia, MD on 1/19/11. I have also added some supplementary info you [...]

It can be useful to have some basic information about how the various First Hop Routing Protocols (FHRP’s) work. When I read that the first release of Cisco OTV (Overlay [...]

CiscoLive 2010 is the premier event for anyone who uses Cisco products. There is a lot to see and people to talk with at this conference. There are Cisco staff [...]

Two prior blogs discussed OTV, Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization. One of those blogs pointed out some concerns one might have about optimal routing, OTV optimal routing. (My virtual machine — [...]

In this CMUG session, I discussed “Data Center Virtualization” at the April C-MUG session. We looked at the many aspects of virtualization that are relevant to the data center, sharing [...]