Tag Archives: SDN

VMware Cloud on AWS with Direct Connect: NSX Networking and vMotion to the Cloud with Demo

I also published this blog post about VMware Cloud on AWS with Direct Connect: NSX Networking and vMotion to the Cloud with Demo on the VMware NSX Network Virtualization Blog on April 4, 2018. The full blog post is provided … Continue reading

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Building “Intelligent” and Highly Automated Data Centers

I’ve been fortunate to work in a space where I’ve had exposure to see and discuss infrastructure and architecture/design of some of the most highly utilized and scalable networks in the world. It’s fair to say living in Silicon Valley … Continue reading

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Dell Open Networking and SDN – All About Disaggregation

When Dell first announced its Open Networking initiative a little over a year ago, they were the first major networking vendor to do so. Very similar to what Dell did for servers, Dell is now doing for networking – allowing … Continue reading

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6WIND – From Data Plane Acceleration to Virtual Appliances

6WIND is an interesting company I’ve been following for some time now, initially out of curiosity, and then out of more curiosity :-). They first started as a networking software company claiming to solve performance challenges for software defined networks … Continue reading

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Minecraft for $2.5 Billion – Yes, ‘the App’ is King

I’m still not completely over the shock from last November when I learned Microsoft had bought Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, for $2.5 billion dollars. Let me repeat that: “$2.5 BILLION”; you heard right. Markus Persson, the 35 year-old original … Continue reading

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Dell VRF-lite & VMware NSX: Multitenancy Across Physical & Logical Networks

Please checkout the white paper Dell Networking: Multitenancy Across Physical and Logical Environments with VRF-lite and VMware NSX. In the white paper I discuss use cases and how NVO and VRF-lite can be used together to deploy a consistent multitenant … Continue reading

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Dell Networking and VMware NSX: Bridging Between Logical & Physical Networks

In a prior blog, Creating Logical Networks and Services with VMware NSX on Dell Infrastructure, I discussed how easily VMs can be moved from physical (VLANs) to logical networks (Network Virtualization Overlays or NVOs). In practicality, there will almost always … Continue reading

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Creating Logical Networks and Services with VMware NSX on Dell Infrastructure

If you haven’t already, please checkout the Dell-VMware NSX Reference Architecture (RA) whitepaper. In the reference architecture I explain in detail the foundational NSX-vSphere components and also how Dell can provide a complete end-to-end infrastructure (servers, networking, storage) to support … Continue reading

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Network Virtualization with Dell and VMware NSX [Video]

Check out my latest Dell Networking video on Network Virtualization with Dell and VMware NSX. You can view it on the Dell VMware wiki site, the Dell YouTube channel, or see the video embedded below via direct link.

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Facebook – Not Your Typical Network Engineers

A few weeks ago I got an invite to attend a Facebook Open House event which just occurred yesterday. I usually receive invites to several of these types of events from different companies across Silicon Valley. Being an active developer … Continue reading

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