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Liveblog: VMworld 2019 Day 1 General Session

Scott Lowe

This year the event is back at Moscone Center in San Francisco, and VMware has already released some juicy news (see here , here , and here ) in advance of the keynote this morning, foreshadowing what Pat is expected to talk about. He talks about how VMware works to do “good engineering” and “engineering for good.”

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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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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. Dell – Closest & Top of Rack. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. VMware already produced a great post on how to leverage NSX in a Cisco UCS environment. Network Cisco NSX VMWare' Arista – Top of Rack.

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Technology Short Take 101

Scott Lowe

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. This is an interesting announcement from a few weeks ago that I missed—Dell EMC will offer Isilon on Google Cloud Platform. Here’s another one from David: running Juniper vQFX10K on ESXi 6.5.

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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. Here’s a nice article on a multi-action security workflow built using VMware NSX, vShield Endpoint, and vCenter Orchestrator. Servers/Hardware.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

The only major things missing from their "Starter Kit" suite they offer are the addition of VMware - not cheap if you choose to purchase it - as well as the addition of a blade (or two) to serve as controllers of the system. The UCS Manager software bundled with the system provides core functionality (see diagram, right).

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Introduction to Networking: Part 2, A Few More Basics

Scott Lowe

Switches generally support a variety of load balancing mechanisms, including source-destination MAC addresses, source-destination IP addresses, and sometimes even layer 4 (TCP/UDP) source-destination ports. Similar Posts: VMware ESX, NIC Teaming, and VLAN Trunking with HP ProCurve. Configuring Inter-VLAN Routing.

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