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VMworld 2013 – Network Virtualization: Moving Beyond the Obvious (My Notes)

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Speaker: Martin Casado (VMware Networking CTO). NSX is basically a network hypervisor similar to how ESXi is a server hypervisor. So, NSX would sit on top of the physical network, which would give you the same capability to provision extremely complex virtual networks from Layer 2 to 7. Operations.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

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Is Cisco fighting a losing battle over SDN?

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Basically, they are looking to provide programmability to the network via their Application-Centric Infrastructure. This is different from the current software first movement in that Cisco’s approach is based on their hardware first view of the network. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. Network Cisco NSX VMWare'

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Networking. Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you!

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Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World

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For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. On top of that, the tool also allows users to automatically handle networking, storage, logs, alerting, and many other things related to containers. Therefore, this allows users to save on hardware and data center costs.

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Networking. Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you!

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Technology Short Take 101

Scott Lowe

Networking. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. Servers/Hardware.