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Dell’s bare metal switch is a big deal for SDN

Virtualized Greek

While Dell isn’t exactly the biggest player in networking, it’s still relevant to note how important their announcement of a bare metal switch is to Software Defined Networking (SDN). The Dell announcement helps bring to reality some of the advantages from a physical network perspective. Network Virtualization Dell SDN'

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Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. Jason Boche has a nice write-up on how a QLogic HBA setting prevented NPIV from working in a Dell Compellent environment (used with VMware vSphere).