{"id":18284,"date":"2015-10-01T14:08:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T14:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2015-10-01T14:08:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T14:08:25","slug":"how-to-prepare-your-environment-for-the-software-defined-networking-era-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-to-prepare-your-environment-for-the-software-defined-networking-era-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prepare Your Environment for the Software Defined Networking Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for my upcoming webinar, here is another video\u00a0 I did a few months back around how to prepare your environment for software defined networking. Regardless of which SDN solution you choose, there is a lot of backend work that needs to be done. Before you get into the weeds around specific products, you need to take a step back. To be successful, you&#8217;re going to need to have a level of understanding about your applications you&#8217;ve never needed before. I will cover this briefly in my webinar, but if you are <a href=\"http:\/\/response.greenpages.com\/GreenPagesNSXvsACIWebinarOctober62015Blog\" >planning on attending<\/a>, this is a good one to watch first to help set the stage. <span id=\"more-6309\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container embed-youtube\">\n                <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y6pVmNrOnCA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n              <\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/response.greenpages.com\/GreenPagesNSXvsACIWebinarOctober62015Blog\" >Register for Nick&#8217;s webinar<\/a>, &#8220;VMware NSX vs. Cisco ACI: When to Use Each, When to Use Both.&#8221; In the webinar, Nick will cover:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The current state of the SDN market<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>VMware NSX &amp; Cisco ACI overview<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>When it makes sense to use each, or even both<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Next steps to get your environment prepared for SDN initiatives<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By Nick Phelps, Principal Architect<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?a=TBRbbhtS53A:WRQuKck0m10:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?a=TBRbbhtS53A:WRQuKck0m10:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?i=TBRbbhtS53A:WRQuKck0m10:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?a=TBRbbhtS53A:WRQuKck0m10:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?i=TBRbbhtS53A:WRQuKck0m10:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?a=TBRbbhtS53A:WRQuKck0m10:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/JourneyToTheCloud?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/JourneyToTheCloud\/~4\/TBRbbhtS53A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for my upcoming webinar, here is another video&nbsp; I did a few months back around how to prepare your environment for software defined networking. Regardless of which SDN solution you choose, there is a lot of backend work that needs to be done. Before you get into the weeds around specific products, you&#8230;  <a href=\"http:\/\/greenpages.wpengine.com\/network-infrastructure\/prepare-environment-software-defined-networking-era-2\/\" title=\"ReadHow to Prepare Your Environment for the Software Defined Networking Era\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-infrastructure","category-sdn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18350,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18284\/revisions\/18350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}