As a Lab Captain for Hands On Lab HOL-SDC-1625, most of my time at VMworld this year was focused on supporting our NSX Labs. Fortunately, we were located in the same building as the Solutions Exchange so it was a quick dash to the showroom floor to see the latest and greatest technologies VMware and partners have to offer.

I have worked with many network management platforms over the years and one of the common complains with all management platforms is the User Interface and being able to integrate both physical and virtual aspects of infrastructure in a single view. Arkin is a new company with a management UI that is unlike anything in the marketplace today. Arkin’s “Visibility and Operations Center” has one of the finest infrastructure management UI’s I have ever seen, and provides an example of how managing virtual and physical infrastructure in a single view is possible…