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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Last week I had the opportunity to join John Troyer on the VMware Communities podcast. My purpose, as John put it when he invited me, was to “gently introduce” the community to the idea of network virtualization, which is where I now spend most of my time since joining VMware in early February. emphasis mine).

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Is Cisco fighting a losing battle over SDN?

Virtualized Greek

All of Cisco’s major vendors are lined up in support of VMware’s NSX software based virtualization solution. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. VMware already produced a great post on how to leverage NSX in a Cisco UCS environment. Network Cisco NSX VMWare' The list includes a who’s who of Cisco competitors.

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Technology Short Take 149

Scott Lowe

Thomas Graf recently shared how eBPF will eliminate sidecars in service mesh architectures (he also announces the Cilium Service Mesh beta in the same post). Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. Eric Sloof drew my attention to a VMware white paper on paravirtual RDMA devices on vSphere.

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Technology Short Take #27

Scott Lowe

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. I might have mentioned this before, but Ken Pepple’s OpenStack Folsom architecture post is just awesome. Feel free to share something in the comments! Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. .” But how revolutionary and simplifying are they?

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

Fountainhead

The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. Gartner and others agree - this is the next wave in data center architecture. This permits physically flatter networks.

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Technology Short Take #25

Scott Lowe

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). This is an awesome overview of the OpenStack Folsom architecture , courtesy of Ken Pepple. In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you.

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