In my previous blog, I covered the underlay network setup for Nuage in KVM. In this blog, I am going to cover the Nuage VSD installation lab guide and on the next part of the blog, we would go through the installation of the nuage components one by one. What is Nuage VSD (Virtual Service …

In our last section of the Nuage sdwan lab setup, we had installed VSD, which is the nuage networks VNS management plane. In this section of the lab guide, we would go ahead and install a SD-WAN controller known as VSC (Virtual Service Controller.) Wha is Nuage VSC ? VSC is the Nuage SDN’s controller, which …

I love Ubuntu, especially when I wanted to work with python programming, But I also love windows 10 because of its GUI and the vast variety of software support. In the last blog, I covered how you can install windows 10 on Centos/Redhat KVM. But in this tutorial I going to cover the Debian derivative …

When you want to install the windows 10 operating system on a virtualized environment or for your personal PC, many wonders where you can get windows 10 iso download, this blog will show you how you can download windows 10 iso images directly from Microsoft. Note: Though you can download the image for free, you …

When you wanted to test something in your machine its better to use a virtual environment. you can play around with the machine and even if you mess up something with the virtual machine, you can still restore them. Since the VM environment and the physical host environment is separate, whatever you do on the …

Have you ever thought you would wanted to take a backup of the ilo license key and you are unable to find the key using neither ILO CLI console nor ILO GUI ? and Ended up seeing the key like below with just 4 characters of the license shown ? Activation Key xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-ABCDE Then you …

Most of the network engineers whom I know have worked with mainly Cisco gears and not Hpe Comeware devices, Including myself 🙂 And my transition wouldnt been easier if there was no GNS3. To get familiar with the Comware devices, what I have done is.. I have downloaded and installed Hpe VSR to my gns3. …

I have a CentOS machine but there are times I would wanted to switch from CentOS to Ubuntu, how do I do that ? You can have a dual boot with both the Centos and the Ubuntu but if you wanted to switch from Centos to Ubuntu then you would have to shut down the …

The Redundancy protocol is very common in any enterprise network that you look at it. When it comes to providing layer3 redundancy there are multiple protocols available for you to choose from, each provides its own advantages and disadvantages. Based on your requirement, there are redundancy protocols such as HSRP, GLBP, and VRRP, let’s look …

I have covered few blog posts about installing VM’s such as Centos, Ubuntu, Windows on different hypervisors. However, the installation of CentOS 8 on the VMware workstation was totally different story. When the CentOS 8 came out I thought let me spin up the CentOS 8 on my VMware workstation. Guess what ?, The installation …

How you install the traditional network devices?A skilled technician would go on to the site to deploy the router and connect cables on them and make sure everything is working.But how to implement SD-WAN gateway? You cannot install SD-WAN gateway in our case NSG (Network Service Gateway) just like that. You would have to do …

Yes, we are almost there to get everything up and run.! I am building this lab for you guys and at the same time, writing this post, that way I hope everything would be accurate. In this lab, we are going to install the Nuage proxy server, also known as nuage utility VM, so let’s …

There are a few features that are not available out of the box in Ubuntu. One such feature is SSH. If you ever install Ubuntu desktop on your machine and expect the ssh to work by default, it doesn’t. You would get an error message that says ‘The remote system refused the connection’ However, in the Ubuntu server …

When you install Redhat Linux enterprise or a CentOS on a server, by default, it takes the display resolution as 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768. Also, when you go to display settings and try to modify the display resolution, you would be disappointed to see that there are no options available to increase …

I recently installed Ubuntu on my VMWare workstation pro, and I realized that I need to transfer some files from my windows host machine to the Ubuntu Guest OS and vice versa. There are many ways you could transfer files from linux to windows . Lets look at the simple and easiest ways to transfer …

You are here because you wanted to learn about Nuage SD-WAN and its lab setup. For me, I don’t like to read more of theory when it comes to learning new technologies. I would instead do a lab first and make some mistakes and learn from them. By the time I finish the lab, I …

There are many ways you could configure a DNS server. If you are a network engineer and wanted to build a private DNS server for a small office, you can prefer to configure a router as a DNS server than configuring a Linux or a Windows machine for the same purpose, right? In this lab, …

We all have configured Routing protocols and heard about the term ASN/AS numbers (Autonomous system number). However, when it comes to BGP, have you ever wondered what ASN really is and how you can get one?In this blog, let’s answer what ASN is in the BGP routing protocol, and it’s differences and types. A BGP …

CentOS is one of my favorite Linux distros, I have been using them for quite a while for my labs as well as in POC’s. If I have to do some testing in the Redhat production servers I would prefer to use Centos as an alternate as both are identical and configuration looks the same …

I usually use the windows vm machine as a jump server inside my labs, that way I can move around the files and stuff quickly, sometimes I install the windows machine on the ESXi host else I would install it on the KVM.  For some, they wanted to use windows machines on their Linux box. …

When you are a network engineer or a developer, you may want to test your skills in a virtual environment rather than playing with your machine or production environment. Because you never know what could go wrong. What is VMware Workstation pro? VMWare workstation pro is a Software program that would let you install different …

What do you think is the best way for Network hosts to update its clock automatically?The answer to that is to use an NTP server, in this article lets find out what is NTP and its stratum values, and we would also configure Cisco and Comware routers as the NTP public and private servers. Read …

The VLC media player is great if you wanted to watch videos on your computer, tablet, or even on your smartphone. And the best part about this media software is that it not only play videos locally it also helps you stream videos over the network, meaning you can make your local machine as a …

I know how does DHCP works, but what if I want to configure my router as a DHCP server as well, is it possible? the answer is YES!, You can configure the Cisco router as the DCHP server and this blog we are going to cover the same. In the last blog, I covered how …

The gns3 has evolved from just a simulator for Cisco IOS to a multivendor environment.You can simulate the physical network virtually in gns3 and it works great! Wouldn’t be cool if we can get the host internet access shared to the gns3 that way the devices in gns3 can access the internet and you can …

I like to work on physical equipment when it comes to networking, but what if I cannot afford to own one, then the only option is to Virtualise them. I have been running a virtualized environment for both my Network POC’s and the Labs for years now using Gns3. Since Gns3 supports a lot of …

I was working on a topology where I had to add a Ubuntu desktop client to simulate the end-user machine. I tried to install Ubuntu on the KVM hypervisor. Downloaded the Ubuntu ISO file, moved the Ubuntu-desktop ISO file to /var/lib/libvert/images folder on the KVM server I was working on. Selected network configuration and started …

Most of the network professionals whom I know are very good at configuring and fine-tuning the internal routing protocols, and when I ask them about configuring BGP, they are like, ‘you know what, I am not so confident with it maybe I think I have to read a bit more about it before I spin …

I have covered what is VXLAN and the differences between the overlay and underlay network here, in this blog we are going to take a look at the overlay and underlay in action using nuage sd-wan lab. The underlay network topology. Below is the actual underlay network, The Branch 1 NSG is connected to two …

The other day I was working on a POC lab where I had to simulate a DNS server, Centos version 7 in this case in GNS3. It was for one of the nuage sdwan gns3 labs I was working on.Took a copy of centos DNS VM from existing KVM host, added into gns3 by going …