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COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization

Scott Lowe

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

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Technology Short Take 124

Scott Lowe

And yes, normally I’d publish this on a Friday, but I messed up and forgot. Networking. Said van de Klundert has a post on screen scraping basics for network engineers. For network engineers just getting started with network automation, I suspect that the information shared here may prove quite useful.

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A Brief Introduction to Linux Containers with LXC

Scott Lowe

Linux containers are getting a fair amount of attention these days (perhaps due to Docker , which leverages LXC on the back-end) as a lightweight alternative to full machine virtualization such as that provided by “traditional” hypervisors like KVM, Xen, or ESXi.

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Technology Short Take 89

Scott Lowe

Networking. This is a slightly older post providing an overview of container networking , but still quite relevant. Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. Virtualization.

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Life at VMware, Two Weeks In

Scott Lowe

My entire first week was taken up by new hire onboarding and some training on Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). I was pleased to find that the time and effort I’d spent familiarizing myself with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch (OVS) proved quite useful in hitting the ground running with NVP.

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Technology Short Take #39

Scott Lowe

Networking. I mean, if they aren’t willing to embrace the abstraction and automation that a cloud management platform brings, will abstraction and automation at the networking layer provide any significant benefit? I’d love to hear others’ thoughts on this. Ethan Banks also muses on the need for abstraction.

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Learning NSX, Part 11: Reviewing OpenStack Integration Basics

Scott Lowe

In case you’re just now catching up on this blog series, I encourage you to visit my Learning NVP/NSX page , which has a brief summary of all the posts in the series. The Neutron DHCP agent, which provides DHCP services for the various logical networks created in Neutron (at least, whenever DHCP is enabled for a logical network).

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