From the course: Implementing Cisco Software-Defined Wan (SD-WAN) for your Enterprise and Cloud

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Software repositories

Software repositories

- [Instructor] So when we think about our SD-WAN fabric, we need to think about how we keep it current with new versions of code and things like that. So what we're going to talk about now is the software repositories for where we store the software versions for the Edge devices, the controllers like the vBonds, the vspars and the vManages and the containers for things like ThousandEyes, or if we want to run Snort on our actual Edge devices, they all need a place to reside. So there are three options for a software repository. The first option is a remote server that could be located as a FTP or HTTP server. And this is often considered the preferred method because it's not throttled and vManage can monitor the software installation. And most important, the disk base is not going to be consumed on the vManage itself. The other two options are going to basically boil down to being storing the images on vManage itself. Now it comes down to how do you want to access those images. So the…

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