I had the pleasure of speaking with Nils Swart (@nlnils) of Plexxi about applications and the network. You can watch the quick Engineer’s Unplugged below. Related posts: Focus on the Ball: The Application Cloud Success Factor: Rethink Application Development Application Centric Infrastructure – The Platform True Software Defined Networking (SDN)…
Tag: Network virtualization
Software Defined networking: The Role of SDN on Compute Infrastructure Administration
#vBrownBag Follow-up Software Defined Networking SDN with Joe Onisick (@jonisick) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Related posts: True Software Defined Networking (SDN) Why Software-Defined Networking Could Revolutionize Networking A Lesson on Infrastructure from Nigeria – SDN and Networking Digging Into the Software Defined Data Center Private Cloud Infrastructure Design: Go Beyond…
It’s Our Time Down Here– “Underlays”
Recently while winding down from a long day I flipped the channel and “The Goonies†was on. I left it there thinking an old movie I’d seen a dozen times would put me to sleep quickly. As it turns out I quickly got back into it. By the time the…
Focus on the Ball: The Application
With the industry talking about Software Defined Networking (SDN) at full hype levels, there is one thing missing from many discussions: the application. SDN promises to reign in the complexity of network infrastructure and provide better tools for deploying services at scale. What often seems to be forgotten are the…
Network Abstraction and Virtualization: Where to Start?
Network Abstraction and Virtualization: Where to Start? With the growth of server virtualization network designs and the associated network management constructs have been stretched beyond their intended uses. This has brought about data center networks that are unmanageable and slow to adapt to change. While servers and storage can be…
What Network Virtualization Isn’t
Brad Hedlund recently posted an excellent blog on Network Virtualization. Network Virtualization is the label used by Brad’s employer VMware/Nicira for their implementation of SDN. Brad’s article does a great job of outlining the need for changes in networking in order to support current and evolving application deployment models. He…
The App on the Crap (An SDN Story)
I’m feeling Seussish again and looking to tackle SDN this time. If you missed my first go it was on Hadoop: Horton Hears Hadoop. Here’s another run: The app could not flow Net was too slow to change. It sat on the server Waiting on admin for change. …
Network Overlays: An Introduction
While network overlays are not a new concept, they have come back into the limelight, thanks to drivers brought on by large-scale virtualization. Several standards have been proposed to enable virtual networks to be layered over a physical network infrastructure: VXLAN, NVGRE, and SST. While each proposed standard uses different…
Why We Need Network Abstraction
The move to highly virtualized data centers and cloud models is straining the network. While traditional data center networks were not designed to support the dynamic nature of today’s workloads, the fact is, the emergence of highly virtualized environments is merely exposing issues that have always existed within network constructs….
Data Center Overlays 101
I’ve been playing around with Show Me (www.showme.com) as a tool to add some white boarding to the blog. Here’s my first crack at it covering Data Center Network overlays. Related posts: Data Center 101: Server Virtualization Data Center 101: Server Systems Data Center 101: Local Area Network Switching Network…