Managing ACL Conflicts and Chaos Problems managing your enterprise network ACLs? ACL management and enforcing policies can be tedious like weeding a garden – it’s difficult to stay on top of it. With multiple vendors all with different syntax, rules are complicated and implementing rules can have an unanticipated impact on the network. You may not know all the syntax necessary or find yourself without all the necessary credentials. A mathematical model from Forward Networks can help. By modeling the whole forwarding plane, Forward can:…
To build performant network orchestration, analytics, or operations tools, we need a high thruput, reliable, distributed event streaming platform. We use Apache Kafka for that purpose as it is an excellent tool for event processing. Unfortunately, Kafka is not built for true autonomous operations as critical operational / recovery steps still need manual intervention. This session will review our journey in reducing that exposure and in making Kafka secure and autonomous.
With the growing complexity of the modern data center network, there are compelling requirements for network engineers to embrace automation frameworks like Ansible. Cisco offers a large set of Ansible collections for its datacenter products containing hundreds of modules but sometimes a specific use case is not covered. In this session we will show you how you can build an Ansible module for the Cisco ACI Ansible collection and how to contribute it to the ACI collection open source project (https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/ansible-aci).
IT operations teams are being asked to maintain increasingly complex systems using increasingly outdated tools and networking. That’s where AIOps comes in: Applying analytics and machine learning to automate and improve IT operations. Using VMware Edge Network Intelligence for AIOps addresses the ONUG use cases of private and public cloud, SAAS and applications, and content. This session will examine a multi-vendor approach from a branch perspective. We will demonstrate a Windows client accessing a Zoom application, using a MIST AP and a VMware SD-WAN Edge….
There is a tragic mis-match between the hundreds of millions of dollars IT organizations spend to gather and store data versus minuscule investments by the business functions to monetize that data. And if data is the new oil – the source for economic growth in the 21st century – then both IT and business organizations must collaborate more closely to monetize the organization’s bounty of untapped data; to uncover the customer, product, services, and operational insights buried in the data. Modern cloud-centric, digital organizations are in the…
Your cloud core runs mission-critical app to app workflows. In a multi-cloud setting, how do your connectivity options support critical service flows like transactional systems? Join Keith Burns from PacketFabric as he compares the effective throughput of Internet VPN overlay versus on-demand private optical transport–a form of elastic network infrastructure. You’ll see a demo showing the impact of network latency on an AWS to Azure Kafka Data Pipeline, comparing Internet VPN and PacketFabric’s Cloud Router.
Enterprise organizations are challenged by their ability to automate and orchestrate changes across both traditional CLI-centric networks and newer API-centric network infrastructure. Existing automation techniques may take too long to implement and may only allow for automation across a very specific network domain. To respond to business requirements, enterprises must have a solution that supports automation across both types of network infrastructure and allows for rapid development of end-to-end integration and automation that can be delivered via self-service capabilities across varying roles and teams. With…
As enterprises of all sizes rapidly adopt SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) deployment models in the branch, traffic steering, routing, and processing takes place in an increasingly distributed fashion. This makes it challenging to diagnose functional and performance issues with the existing tools available to network administrators. Come to this session to learn how SASE will optimize branch networking and how VMware Edge Network Intelligence can use AIops best practices to gain actionable insights into branch and cloud network operation.
How can you track the behavior and health of your network when it’s composed of 10’s of thousands of devices that span on-premises, hybrid cloud, multi cloud, and virtual environments? Especially when every cloud, every device type, every model, every version, and every configuration behaves in a slightly different way? Join this session to learn how the mathematical model that powers the Forward Networks digital twin accurately models every possible behavior of your network. With this information at your fingertips, you can move from reactive to proactive, enhance…
In this session, Gluware will demonstrate three automation use cases to progress NetOps enabling a DevOps approach and integrating with CI/CD pipelines. The first use case will look at how to leverage the published REST API from Gluware, GluAPI, to interact programmatically with Gluware. The second use case will demonstrate how the Gluware Lab IDE can be used to build a custom data model, using VLANs as an example, to store data and also expose a REST API to feed in variables from an external…
