Master BGP AS-Path engineering on Cisco Nexus switches. Learn how to leverage AS-Path length to control both inbound and outbound data center traffic.

Control how traffic leaves your data center fabric through multiple upstream BGP routers by using BGP Local Pref as the path attribute.

Stop struggling with L3Out export route control. Learn how to turn your Cisco ACI fabric into a transit network with this step-by-step lab.

Stop letting IS-IS intimidate you. If you already know OSPF, you are halfway to mastering the “hidden engine” of the modern Data Centers. In this IS-IS overview video, I break…

Stop typing long variable names in ACI show commands. In this 50-second quick tip, I show you how to use Cisco ACI CLI Aliases to fix that.

Explore the Cisco ACI migration strategy. Understand Greenfield vs. Brownfield, Network vs. Application Centric designs, and a step-by-step technical summary.

Master the BGP route redistribution in NX-OS. Learn the mandatory route-map rule and the critical differences between Cisco IOS and Nexus in just 12 minutes.

Step-by-step Cisco ACI L3Out configuration in APIC (video). Build L3Out end-to-end and connect your ACI fabric to the external networks.

Standard ACI Ansible modules don’t cover everything. For objects prebuilt modules can’t handle yet, learn how to automate ACI with Ansible using the aci_rest module.