A nice blog post by Alan Renouf which details VM tag manipulation via PowerCLI… http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2013/12/using-tags-with-powercli.html The vSphere UI also provides the capability for VM Tags to be added and removed…
A little clarification about the NSX vSphere Distributed Firewall together with 3rd party partner integration… First, NSX as an ecosystem platform and provides extensibility to allow 3rd party partners to interoperate between NSX and their respective technology solutions….
A great article written by Bruce Davie from the VMware Office of the CTO details the proposed IETF encapsulation standard Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation, better known as Geneve and why it is needed… http://cto.vmware.com/geneve-vxlan-network-virtualization-encapsulations
Optimized for x86 to x86 tunneling providing all the best features of STT combined with all the best features of VXLAN…
During VMWorld I was asked about VXLAN and thought I would share with you as well…
VXLAN is VMware’s network encapsulation technology used in VMware vCloud Networking & Security products and NSX for vSphere. It is also used by switch vendors Arista, Juniper, Broadcom, HP, and others to provide top of rack integration with VMware’s NSX for Multi Hypervisor via VXLAN Tunnel EndPoint or VTEP for short…
I’m pretty excited about this… NSX 6.1 Announcement
New features include:
For me personally, the ECMP support stands out as awesome! Enjoy!!