I have written before about Linux being the fantastic foundation for the Network Operating System across platforms and network devices. Cumulus has released a Virtual Community Edition of their software. Cumulus VX allows network administrators, operators, and anyone with a…
Resetting Mail.app layout I may be seen as a Masochist but I use Apple’s Mail client for my email. It works more often than not and I have been rather happy with it. Recently I noticed there was something amiss…
Today VMware launches ALL the things. We have new versions of most of our major products. Get them here – get them in the lab and get them running! ESXi 6.0 vCenter Server 6.0 vSphere Data Protection 6.0 vSphere Replication…
The OVN project launched today. The OVN application adds routing, switching, security policy and L2-4 ACLs upon many network abstractions. Very cool stuff here. What I found even more interesting was that from the OpenStack survey completed in 2014 was…
Cisco VIRL Cisco VIRL has been officially release. Cisco VIRL is Ciso’s network topology platform that allows the study, testing, simulation and validation of enterprise and service provider topologies in a lab environment. Built on KVM using OpenStack, this platform…
Dmitri is a Solution Architect within the NSBU at VMware. I am very lucky to have him within my office so I can annoy the heck out of him. He is an exceptionally talented person who gets it at the…
Over on the community portal there has be a 4.2 release of the NSX-mh design guide. It gives administrators of NSX-mh an understanding into the design and configuration considerations around the latest version. It includes recommendations about virtual service nodes,…
Over on the community portal there has been a 2.0 revision of the NSX design guide. This is covers many aspects of technical implementation and design of a virtual network with NSX. It includes recommendations about settings, timers, failover methods,…
I came across an interesting issue when deploying NSX manager at a Partner site. The issue was when deploying the NSX manager ova, after putting the parameters in an error would be displayed – “task cancelled by the user”. I…
VMware certification announced that they are now putting timers on to their certifications and encouraging the recertification of titles. This has caused an uproar amongst the VMware and virtualisation community. Previously VMware certified professions have been able to certify against…
I have been working with the RESTful API within NSX for vSphere a bit lately. I have been standing a few environments up with a python script that makes sequential API requests to the NSX manager. This has been pretty…
I have spoken quite a bit about VMware NSX over the last couple of weeks. There were still quite a few unknowns amongst the twitterati and the community at large around designs. Today this has been solved with the release…
Something that factors into OpEx budgets are the ongoing costs of power. It is often forgotten about or not considered in a lifecycle of a device but can have a large impact on ongoing revenue and budgets. With the launch…
The Nexus 9000 and ACI is all the buzz at the moment and as an architect I need to look at what is out there, gain a sound understanding of it to realize business benefits. The unique part about the…
This post is intended to explain the breakdown of the types if posts and content you will see on my blog. Sparks – posts that are intended to give a small account, thought or commentary surrounding a technology, an event…