"The network is vast and infinite" – Motoko Kusanagi
This articles exists because I spend a lot of time in the last year inside vmware vRealize Automation (vRA) that includes an embedded vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) on a undisclosed project. … Read More
Foreword First a disclaimer #1, in contrast to the previous articles, here I will NOT describe the collection of data that will be visualized because these datasets were manufactured manually for … Read More
After a longer break, I managed to get back to my small visualization experiment from last time, and improve it a little. Firstly, the NETCONF interface was switched for a … Read More
Ok, first let’s get one thing clear. This is an educational project for me learning some computer vision algorithms (I want to make an insect identification system to protect a … Read More
Ok, this is a continuation of two streams of articles here, first my recent NETCONF tutorial here, and secondly my very old project (back then in Java) of visualization of … Read More
So let’s learn about NETCONF, but first a bit of history and perspective. Everyone in networking business at least once heard about SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), which is the … Read More
After working with Mikrotik / RouterBoard routers for a long time, I recently needed to replace an aging old wifi router at my parents and the recent brand of very … Read More
The target was simple, we have an internal cloud datacenter at work that provides users and customers both virtual machines and physical machines. Each machine has to network interface cards … Read More
REST-full API, the new trendy bandwagon of cloud automation and SDN due to its simplicity and universal compatibility. TI is essentially a http transfer protocol with JSON payload. And if … Read More
Here I was getting a trouble with communication between an ESX virtual machine and the nearby switch (Nuage/DCN controller VM talking with a VTEP switch if someone is interested) and … Read More
In the previous part 1, we have installed basic HPE DCN system on a group of ESXi hosts. But we didn’t actually done anything inside it, so lets fix this … Read More
Nuage Networks is a spinoff from Alcatel-Lucent (now under Nokia as they acquisition Alcatel recently) and also a name of software defined network (SDN) overlay solution for datacenters and direct … Read More
I had Hadoop experience now for more than a year, thanks to a great series of Cloud Computing courses on Coursera.org, now after ~6 months of running via several cloud … Read More
Nicer, more stable, AJAX/JSON enabled pingonyou.com and also preparations in background to introduce the 24/7 Monitoring feature. So here we are. First a bit of short history, if you have … Read More
A small lab showing basic configuration of BGP between Cisco and HP (Comware v5). This is just something small we deploying recently, there is nothing grand here, only a minor … Read More
After a few previous web programming endeavors (both here on networkgeekstuff.com with SDN programming and in real life job) I had a taste to develop “something” and since I am … Read More
This will really be a micro-post as I only want to document this for my benefit. This is a way how to change partition table for disks, or USB sticks. … Read More
In this article, I am going to give you a quick guide how to run a single checkpoint FW as virtual machine quickly on your notebook and then super-quick introduction … Read More
The Mil Mi-24 (Russian: Миль Ми-24; NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship and attack helicopter and low-capacity troop transport with room for eight passengers. It is produced … Read More
In this tutorial series, I will show you by example, how to build your first external REST API based SDN application for HP SDN VAN controller, with web interface for … Read More
In this tutorial series, I will show you by example, how to build your first external REST API based SDN application for HP SDN VAN controller, with web interface for … Read More
In this tutorial series, I will show you by example, how to build your first external REST API based SDN application for HP SDN VAN controller, with web interface for … Read More
A few months back my wife started a small business. Of course I was the one to build the “IT stuff” here that included a website, some reservation system on … Read More
In this article, I will show how to do a very simple auto-scaling system on eucalyptus cloud using the wonderful eucalyptus fast start image. Afterwards you will appreciate how easy … Read More