So what is the role of the Network Engineer in the world of the Software Defined Network (SDN)?
Somewhat surprising, it’s about removing the mundane aspects of data networking and focusing more on the data center design and architecture combined with standards to support network orchestration and automation…
I volunteered to work the VMware NSX booth at VMworld. Lost most of my voice by the third day, and my feet were toast. That being said, I got to speak to many customers, partners and peers about network virtualization. I especially enjoyed speaking to my Cisco peers!
At the booth we had workstations set up with basic screen shots detailing the capabilities of NSX via the UI interface, and VMware hosted NSX Hands On Labs were available in the hall close by…
There are many blogs and KB’s detailing vSphere Auto Deploy – For larger vSphere environments, it is pretty much a requirement to help manage large scale hypervisor host deployment. The great news is Auto Deploy can also be used with NSX although there are a couple of small “gotchas” associated with Auto Deploy itself…
A nice KB with Video detailing best practices for ESXi 5.5 installations and upgrades…
Enjoy!
I recently completed an NSX implementation on Nutanix with no issues. My peers ran into a little “gotcha” where the NSX VIB’s needed to be loaded before Nutanix VIB’s…