When reviewing NSX vSphere for the first time, it’s easy to see the value of the kernel based distributed routing, switching, and firewall capabilities, combined with Network Function Virtualization (NFV) of features such as Load Balancing, SSL VPN, and DHCP, but Service Composer capabilities “out of the box” seem unclear…
There was a blog post earlier this year which details NSX support on vBlock… http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2014/05/vmware-nsx-runs-great-vce-vblock-systems.html
Any platform that can run vSphere and the vSphere Distributed Switch supports NSX…
The top 10 sessions from VMWorld are available online…
http://www.vmworld.com/community/conference/us/learn/top-10
My favorites…
Enjoy!
The VMware NSX Introduction HOL-SDC-1403 was the most popular lab at VMWorld 2014! Once VMWorld Barcelona wraps up, this and other VMWorld 2014 Labs will be available for you to take. In the meantime, the 2013 labs are available today at http://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/
Pretty sweet news today detailing VXLAN is now RFC-7348. IETF documents the protocol as “implemented”.
Feedback I received is the VXLAN specification was submitted through the Independent Stream Editor (ISE) process and it took a while to get to this point with version 00 submitted around 3 years ago. There were 9 updates to the specification, but no fundamental changes to the encapsulation or baseline specification.