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VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

vCloud Application Director deploys complex application topologies in an automated fashion, and includes integration with tools like Puppet and Chef. Kit shows tasks in vCenter Server that reflect the automation being done by NSX with regard to automatically creating load balancers, firewall rules, logical switches, etc.,

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. What about virtualized load balancers? Or virtualized firewalls? Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? Is one a subset of the other?