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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
we have all done it at least once 🤣😜
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I almost complete the step-by-step guide in order to build a Cisco SD-WAN Lab using EVE-NG It contains initial/basic configs for controllers, vedges and legacy devices. Moreover, it includes all the certificates part which is the trickiest IMHO I'll publish it in a couple of days
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In love with 🥰 It ridiculously simplifies the way to do topology schemas and drafts
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Saturday night 🎉
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Riccardo Nalesso
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Cisco ACI - POD3 deployment equinix dc
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Riccardo Nalesso
2 years
I’m extremely cloud oriented for documents, services and storage but I’m “paper dependent” for books. And you?
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Milestone✅ Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all the people who believed in me from the beginning. Thank you for the opportunities, reminders and nights spent together. Thank you to those who supported my growth and to me who always believed. I’m proud, but still hungry
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Riccardo Nalesso
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Never stop learning
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Riccardo Nalesso
3 months
Spines 👨🏼‍💻
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It has arrived 🥳
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Riccardo Nalesso
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Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3 14 leaves, almost all of the hosts will be connected here!
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Riccardo Nalesso
8 months
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Riccardo Nalesso
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Cisco Nexus 9504 Spine of ACI fabric
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
Site-A PC-A-1: 192.168.100.10 PC-A-2: 192.168.100.11 Site-B PC-B-1: 192.168.100.20 Site-A and Site-B are two VLAN BGP EVPN data center fabrics in a multi-site environment. They are managed by NDFC and DCI has been configured manually. Reachability achieved✅
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
Back to work 💪🏽💪🏽
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Riccardo Nalesso
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Yeah, I failed and I don’t want to hide this result. It increases my power and remember me the feeling. Architecture 92% Controller deployment 89% Router deployment 67% Policies 75% Security and Quality of Service 89% Management and Operations 50% Dear exam, see you in 3 weeks.
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Catalyst 9606R
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
My feelings reading the book: 🤯🤪 It’s a rollercoaster
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Riccardo Nalesso
2 years
Today I want to tell you about a happy ending story. On August 12 I took and failed the SD-WAN exam with 814/1000 This morning, after 45d of hard work and study, I took the exam and I passed it. I took all the bad vibes and converted into positive energy. Thank you all 🙏🏼
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Riccardo Nalesso
2 years
Yeah, I failed and I don’t want to hide this result. It increases my power and remember me the feeling. Architecture 92% Controller deployment 89% Router deployment 67% Policies 75% Security and Quality of Service 89% Management and Operations 50% Dear exam, see you in 3 weeks.
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Riccardo Nalesso
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Cisco Nexus 93108TC-FX3P Two are dedicated for Out of band management, two (one already installed) will take part of the ACI fabric for copper connections
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Cisco APIC and ND node The heart of our infrastructure!
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Riccardo Nalesso
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Everything started here...🥰
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Riccardo Nalesso
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New desk setup 🥳
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Riccardo Nalesso
11 months
VXLAN labs (yeah I'm writing blog posts on them)
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Riccardo Nalesso
3 months
Hi guys 👨🏼‍💻💻
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Riccardo Nalesso
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Have a nice weekend 😜
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
I’m extremely honoured, proud and happy to share it with you.👇🏽 For the first time, I’ve been invited to be part of the #CiscoChampion community!🥳 This is the first step, more to come! Thanks to all and hope to see you soon at upcoming events 👋🏽 @CiscoChampion
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Riccardo Nalesso
7 months
Good news!🎉 The Ansible playbook works and it now retrieves data from external files! If you are working with Cisco ACI you know that the EPG propagation to port/PC/vPC is a very annoying and boring task, so I wanted to automate it!
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
IP on VLAN 3101 -- BGP Session -- remote-as 65901 IP on VLAN 3102 -- BGP Session -- remote-as 65902 IP on VLAN 3103 -- BGP Session -- remote-as 65903 IP on VLAN 3104 -- BGP Session -- remote-as 65905 IP on VLAN 3105 -- BGP Session -- remote-as 65904 WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Riccardo Nalesso
3 months
Happy anniversary to me! I’m not at home so I can’t take a new photo with THE plaque so I just picked it up from my library I just want to remember this day as always. 6y ago my life changed. The best decision I have ever made.
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
Migration time 🧑🏼‍💻🤞🏽
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Riccardo Nalesso
5 months
Cleaning the room 😅 guess how many of them are intact (with clip)
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Riccardo Nalesso
5 months
Datacenter core migration has been successfully completed ✔️ We faced some issues during migration but managed them. Cooperation and collaboration are essential during troubleshooting
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
Cisco ACI and Terraform Creation of: 1 Tenant 1 VRF 1 APP Prof 3 EPG -> 3 BD -> 3 Subnets Sounds great! I've to create a new tenant with 50+ EPG for a customer, here is the way! Work smart, not harder 💪🏽⏳
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Riccardo Nalesso
5 months
some are having fun at #CiscoLiveEMEA ....and some are making diagrams to present the migration of a legacy datacenter to an ACI fabric😉🤣
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
when the ping works.... 🥰😍 Created the related network on NDFC and attached to vPCs (SW-A-1 and SW-A-2) Moreover, I tested also HSRP between the switches and it works! I'm enjoying NDFC!
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Good morning👋🏼 The first blog post about Cisco ACI and Terraform is online!💥 🎯This post will teach you how to deploy a new Tenant with some EPG, BD, VRF and Application Profile inside #CiscoACI #automation #CiscoChampion #networkautomation #terraform
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
What a day!😲 Spoke with friends, vendors and many engineers (SDWAN, ACI and Automation were the main topics) First #CiscoLiveEMEA completed 💪🏽 great experience
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Riccardo Nalesso
2 years
Review the Cisco SD-WAN Cloud onRamp chapter 🌅 Continuous learning and improvement 🙏🏽
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Riccardo Nalesso
2 years
Good Cisco SD-WAN resources? Books, courses and dCloud labs Thanks
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
It happened!!! #CiscoLiveEMEA Thanks John 🔥 Code master 🙌🏽
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Riccardo Nalesso
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Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 IPN/ISN for multi site infrastructure
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Riccardo Nalesso
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New adventure 🥳
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Riccardo Nalesso
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Reviewing some OSPF topics: LSAs, Network Types, DR/BDR election and Areas #OSPF #CCIE #DC #Cisco
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
Good morning community!💪🏽 It took time, but the post has been finally published🔥 It has been reviewed several times by talented engineers Please note that the "Prerequisites" is mandatory, if you can not retrieve/download these files the entire guide will be useless for you 1/3
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
I almost complete the step-by-step guide in order to build a Cisco SD-WAN Lab using EVE-NG It contains initial/basic configs for controllers, vedges and legacy devices. Moreover, it includes all the certificates part which is the trickiest IMHO I'll publish it in a couple of days
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Cisco ACI EPGs deployment through Postman, 74 EPG deployed to 2 vPC in ca. 25 seconds. Ok I just saved hours of work, let me use this free time for CCIE DC studies📚 Work smart, not harder!🙏🏽 Happy Monday!👋🏽 #cisco #programming #api #postman #aci
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Riccardo Nalesso
5 months
cool thing: I am implementing two Direct Connet between two datacenters and AWS. Both DCs advertise the same prefixes to AWS, but I want to prefer DC1 over DC2 for some prefixes and vice versa for others. AWS has a default BGP communities to manipulate outbound traffic
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
After 5 days…Back to work 🔥🔥
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Riccardo Nalesso
2 months
In the next weeks I’ll start the ACI Fabric configuration, probably I’ll write some blog posts about the infrastructure and the process
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Riccardo Nalesso
2 years
It arrived 🧏🏼‍♂️ so fast! A former colleague waited more than 1 year for the same (SDWAN) certificate…I waited no more than 1 month #cisco #sdwan #devnet #LabEveryDay #CiscoSDWAN #ciscolearning #certification #career
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Riccardo Nalesso
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In the next few weeks, I'll deploy my first Cisco VXLAN BGP EVPN fabric with NDFC. It's a greenfield solution, I'm excited In the last three years, I deployed/managed ACI fabrics and standard DC fabrics with NX-OS, never with NDFC (formerly DCNM)
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Riccardo Nalesso
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Today it’s not only my birthday, but also my mother’s birthday 🎉 I’m love her and my father, so blessed 🥲🥰 Happy Sunday friends! Hope you have a great day 🎊
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Cisco SDWAN Multi-Tenant implementation Tested in lab before production
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
I'm going with a Word file for notes, I can easily split the text into chapters and do more things than using Onenote (and also share with peers) First chapter: Layer 2 Switching on Nexus NX-OS
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
Thanks Peter! Great talk 💪🏽 #CiscoLiveEMEA
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
Where the magic happens...🥰 Officially dismissed the old core, all the physical and logical connections have been moved to Cisco ACI. From tomorrow we'll start the IPN, POD2 and POD3 installation/deployment Goodnight 🥳👋🏽
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Riccardo Nalesso
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if you need to convert a Nexus from NX-OS to ACI, here is the guide: here is the output from my recent conversion, everything is fine.
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Riccardo Nalesso
2 years
I read the whole book…what a surprise!!! Great book, I loved it 🔥🥰 Strongly recommended 👍🏽 Thanks to everyone who suggested it to me 🙏🏽 #cisco #ciscosdwan #viptela #sdwan #ciscopress
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Goodbye 👋🏽
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1 year
ok, guys, this is serious..it's impossible, but unfortunately, it isn't. Environment: EVPN-VXLAN Lab Issue: Loopback is admin UP but the protocol is down if I remove the command - interface nve1 [no] multisite border-gateway interface loopback100 - it goes up, suggestions?🤔😅
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Walking before a MPLS migration
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Bringing @CiscoLive swag to Rome
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Do it.💪🏽
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Riccardo Nalesso
2 years
Routing interview done ✅ Maybe the best performance so far 🤞🏽 Tomorrow hiring manager
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Riccardo Nalesso
2 years
She arrived...😍 New company car, proud and blessed 🙏🏽🥳 #audi #a3
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
I'm ready for the CCIE DC journey. This morning, I prepared the timesheet draft and started the INE course (I really missed @brianmcgahan so much) I'm going to track the status and the topics. For notes, I'll use onenote, but I'm not sure if it's the best tool. Suggestions?
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Riccardo Nalesso
8 months
Migration in progress…⏳ Migrating DC - AWS connection from VPN to Direct Connect with BGP Another nice weekend with Cisco ACI
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
Loading... it is almost ready! "Cisco ACI - Deployment With Terraform - Advanced" #CiscoACI #Cisco #Terraform
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Riccardo Nalesso
1 year
I'm receiving a lot of messages about part2 of the Cisco ACI deployment with Terraform Guys give me some time to write it 😅🤣The code is ready because I used it in order to deploy a Tenant recently. I need to add some comments to the code and organize the post Btw, THANKS!
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1 year
What a pleasure! Thanks 🥰😜 #CiscoLiveEMEA
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Riccardo Nalesso
2 years
✅ The second article has been published! The DevNet journey has officially begun! No more procrastination, I promise 😉 Resources: INE, CBT Nuggets and the Official Cert Guide...plus lots of hands-on labs! 👇🏼More information here: #programming #blog
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1 year
2 blog posts are coming: - Cisco ACI Tearraform - Basic - Cisco ACI Tearraform - Advanced I'm not sure about the post’s names. First one will cover a basic tenant creation The second one will cover “complex” tenant creation with multiple EPG/BD/APP (iterations)
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I have been involved in a new Cisco ACI project, so I decided to write some blog posts about Fabric installation, deployment and configuration! Today I am publishing the first post in the series, hoping it will be useful to many engineers! 👨‍💻 #CiscoACI
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This session fucked my brain 👍🏽👍🏽 I’m broke 😅😂 #CiscoLiveEMEA
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*premise* : you have all the necessary SFP and cables for both solutions. Why should I prefer single-homed vs dual-homed? I don't see any advantage here...with single-homed if you lose your parent switch you're fucked, with dual-homed simply don't... Am I missing something?
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2 years
Ehi Network!👋🏼 I published a new post on my blog! A quick update on my Cisco CCNA DevNet journey 😉 👇🏼Take a look 👇🏼 #blog #coding #programming #cisco #devnet #python #api #docker
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2 years
Good morning Network!👋🏼 I'm happy to announce that I've been selected for the 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱!💥 Thanks @LearningatCisco and all the members of this amazing community! Congrats to all the other winners too!👏🏼
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I'm back on Twitter👋🏽 For the past few months I’ve decided to focus on myself and have not been working/posting on blogs,Twitter and LinkedIn I’ve increased my workouts, lost weight, and met great people. I now feel better both physically and mentally Ready for tech challenges
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1 year
The future is hybrid 😉❤️ @meraki thanks again!
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NDFC Lab is in progress, and so far so good.
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✈️✈️😜😜 #CiscoLiveEMEA
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3 months
Good morning guys! Have a great weekend 🤟🏽😜 Vittorio and I are going for a walk in the neighborhood
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Thanks @CiscoChampion ! For the second year, I'll be part of this amazing group of experienced engineers with a common passion: technology! It's a privilege 💪🏽 #CiscoChampion
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2 years
Sometimes I feel like I’m behind in my career, even though I’m only 25 (6YoE) I don't know...It’s weird
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2 years
Today I did a migration with some Test VLANs from legacy to ACI fabric. I love to show the customer some real scenarios before they go live and prepare them all the necessary tests, especially with these "new" technologies. And LOT of documentation, always!
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After a couple of weeks, here are my personal thoughts about the Cisco CCNA DevNet exam: Disclaimer: My thoughts may be different from what you think! #cisco #ccna #devnet #automation #tech #community #blog #programming
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@John_Capobianco My customer just chose the VRF name based on his favourite footballer…I’m with you John 😅🤣
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1 year
If you have any suggestions, questions or whatever please drop me a message, you can easily contact me on Twitter, LinkedIn or via email. Thanks for your patience and support 🙂3/3 #CiscoCert #SDWAN #Cisco #CiscoSDWAN #post #blog #tech #community
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If you do not specify the vpc ID under port-channel but just type --- interface port-channel5 vpc --- It will automatically inherit the port channel ID (5 in this case) reducing the percentage of misconfiguration
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#DevNet Have a nice day! @CiscoDevNet @CiscoPress @LearningatCisco See you in a couple of months!
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#CCIEJourney It is not easy…you will be challenged mentally, physically and emotionally.... Move forward, straight toward the goal
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1 year
Last day 🥲 #CiscoLiveEMEA
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Btw, I want to spend a couple of words for my first time at #CiscoLiveEMEA . The event is insane, you can attend several sessions like: Breakout (Q&A part at the end is the key moment), troubleshooting, 1:1 with engineer, Labs and more! 🧵
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Cisco #SDWAN Lab👨🏽‍💻✅
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Are you using Cisco Modeling Labs? Can you provide me feedback about it? Thank you all
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Good morning network! 👋 I've been very busy lately and this has slowed down the publication of blog posts... BUT in these months I'm preparing for the DCCOR exam (to obtain the CCNP DC and then.... 📷 ) and recently I've focused on VXLAN. 📷 😲
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Hey, community!👋🏼 The last weekend I decided to review some automation concepts for Cisco ACI, using Ansible 👨🏼‍💻 If you work with Cisco ACI, I can bet you hate ACI's static EPG mapping on port/PC/vPC. Come on, don't deny it 😉
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Dinner with CCIE #1410 (Roberto Malatesta)….wtf!!!!! He moved from tech to sales. I’m speechless, it was a great and insightful dinner with such a great man and Expert (capital E). He also knows my blog!!!!! So blessed 🥲🙏🏽
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