So first, a big shout out to my new friends Sam, Anna, and Ashley at the Marriott Fashion Center Chandler – They are awesome, but today they are also my favorite data center network engineers and they did not even know it…
I would like to review what a data center network would look like before and after network virtualization and the benefits gained.
The network topology shown here is very common between customers, although physically, size and scale of the number of switches, routers, and firewalls can be very different…
A customer question came up asking about what changes need to be made to the physical network when logical networks are created….
August 2014 update to OpenStack networking from Yves Fauser 😉
The telecom industry developed a specification for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), although the specification and its application is just as relevant to enterprise customers.
The attached link is a PDF which describes the NFV Specification and use cases applicable to the telecom industry, and how telco’s have embraced SDN and the migration of Network Functions to virtualized workloads…
http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV/001_099/001/01.01.01_60/gs_NFV001v010101p.pdf
SDN/NFV – An exciting world for telco IT and for enterprise IT 😉