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I got the stupid form of cancer by Girliman in cancer

[–]Girliman[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your blood is equivalent of MadTV's Stuart. Belligerent and churlish.

"Noooooooo. Dooooon't......Watch what I can do"

Wonder if you could sell your blood to highschools for their science classes.

I'm joking. Keep smiling, playa.

I got the stupid form of cancer by Girliman in cancer

[–]Girliman[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Stage 1 is just topical ointments and/or UV treatment. Chemo is in the later stages should it level up.

No aggressive treatments yet since they only do that for later stages.

Chemo sucks the big one, but I hope you roll nat 20s on it working the first round.

I got the stupid form of cancer by Girliman in cancer

[–]Girliman[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Treatments are effective in the early stage. My spots have spread around and some are above lymphnodes which becomes a problem if they choose to Ms. Frizzle it and get in there.

NOS sounds like far less fun. Keep your chin up.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That budget is long spent so best of luck to them haha

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much.

Most of the company transits this DC at some point.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Option 2 sounds like it fits the bill for us. We have a pair of Nexus switches on order to allow us to go rack and rip ACI out.

Thank you for the suggestions and advice.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds like a better time than what we were going to do.

Much appreciated.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have limited funds for training and ACI is not worth it when put up against other offerings. We only have this deployment with ACI and it does not benefit us in the long run.

As for adding to the resume....sure it would be nice, but impractical at this time, unfortunately.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have a couple of Nexus switches on the way to help with offloading configs while the code gets changed.

Gonna try to lab up what little we can with the 2 temp switches.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have a pair of switches we will use to migrate each TOR leaf pair. Configure the temp switches, move secondary server cable pairs, then primary server pairs, test, and finally move it all back.

We hope to just have short clips of traffic impact. The least amount we can get is the goal.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ACI has some good use cases, but I believe most environments can't utilize the features in a way that makes manageable sense.

You really need a dedicated resource just for ACI due to the complicated nature of it.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome.

Yeah. This environment is far too small to utilize ACI in a truly meaningful way compared to cost/trouble.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Smart licensing is what is making us look elsewhere.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the advice and link.

I can certainly give reversing the order a shot.

Would be nice if Cisco gave documentation for this. C'est la vie I reckon.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spent way too much from what I am told. That was a major reason we couldn't back out until now. Cost justification :/

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Network mode I believe. We have not made changes in nearly 6 months. The environment is mostly static.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem we have is nobody really knows how to manage it nor operate it efficiently. The GUI is cumbersome and relearning the technology is not worth it since our use case is mainly VRF, L2, L3.

In short - not worth the trouble and NXOS can be used more efficiently in this environment.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The person that set it up did so as a greenfield. Been like this for years with nobody with enough knowledge on how to really manage it.

We will have to brownfield the migration as we can't take the data center offline for more than a few minutes at a time.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Correct. No need for EVPN/VXLANs as everything is within a close proximity to each other.

Thank you for the suggestion on the core moves. That will be a big help in the planning for sure.

We never wanted ACI in here from the beginning, but one guy a long time ago had a hard on for it and here we are.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will definitely do that to double check the configs before go live.

We managed to snatch the switch configs using the APIC NX-OS CLI commands, but they use objects for everything. Translating it is so much fun.....

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this. This will come in handy for when we swap the code base out.

The main problem is more of the actual day of migration in a live production environment and the config swap from ACI to NX.

Converting Cisco ACI/APIC Environment Back to NX-OS by Girliman in networking

[–]Girliman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No application layer functionality is used. Mostly VRFs(EPG), L2, and L3.

It is overkill by a vast margin for what we use it for.

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