Okay so it has been a while since I had something I wanted to really post, but I have been trying to find something useful to talk about regarding Nicira NVP specific use cases. Next week I will be presenting at the New England VTUG, and I wanted to share …
Read More »Why Have You Been So Quiet?
I’ve been asked by a few people why some of my tweeting and posts have gotten few and far between. There is a few reasons for it, so I wanted to drop a note to let people know I have not disappeared. No I am not a missing person, at …
Read More »The Nicira NVP Component Architecture
I thought it would be useful to people to understand the actual components that go into a Nicira NVP deployment. This is just meant to be a rundown of the various parts that are needed to deploy the Nicira NVP infrastructure. In doing a few VMware SE knowledge transfer sessions it …
Read More »VMworld 2012 Barcelona Nicira Video
I was grabbed the other day by Jeremy Van Dorn and Eric Sloof from VMworldTV and asked if the VMware CoE Team wanted to do a video spot around Nicira. Well anyone that knows me knows I am not shy so I grabbed Thomas Kraus and Kamau Wanguhu and we …
Read More »How Network Virtualization and Nicira Can Change Operational Processes
As many people know I have been in Barcelona for the week for VMworld 2012. In the last couple days I have spent some great time having conversations with Thomas Kraus and Kamau Wanguhu who are also on my team. I also have had the pleasure to interact with some …
Read More »How The Nicira NVP ESXi vApp Works
Earlier this week, I posted a primer on the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP), but something William Lam pointed out that I updated with a note was that the Open vSwitch for ESXi is not “Integrated” into the hypervisor. This is in fact true, but that being said there is …
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