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Is Cisco fighting a losing battle over SDN?

Virtualized Greek

This is different from the current software first movement in that Cisco’s approach is based on their hardware first view of the network. However, if you were to go by the response to the number of vendors supporting the NSX ecosystem you’d think the entire industry is going against this hardware first religion. Arista – Top of Rack.

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Technology Short Take 88

Scott Lowe

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Servers/Hardware. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Vladan Seget shares how to create a VMware ESXi ISO image with the latest patches. Nothing this time (sorry!).

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Technology Short Take 144

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). I thought it was useful, so now I’m sharing it with you.

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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Ray Budavari—who is an absolutely fantastic NSX resource—has a blog post up on the integration between VMware NSX and vRealize Automation. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Networking.

Vmware 60
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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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Technology Short Take 144

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). I thought it was useful, so now I’m sharing it with you.

Linux 60
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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 ). Servers/Hardware. This is an awesome overview of the OpenStack Folsom architecture , courtesy of Ken Pepple. Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation KVM Linux OpenStack OSS OVS vCloud VMware'

Storage 92