5 Container Deployment Challenges
It’s easy to get Docker up and running in a development environment, but moving containers into production can be difficult.
Save the Date- Africans @ IETF 98- 28 March, 8-9 am (US CDT)
Africans at the IETF Meeting
Venue: Swissotel Chicago, Montreux 2 room
Date: Tuesday 28 March 2017
Time: 8 to 9 am (US Central Time)
Background
Kevin Chege
Two Switches Saga: Now in Text Format
Remember the All You Need Are Two Switches saga? Several readers told me they’d like to have in text (article) format, so I found a transcription service, and started editing what they produced and publishing it. The first two installments are already online.
On a related topic: we’ll discuss the viability of this approach in April DIGS event in Zurich, Switzerland.
Nutanix
This article is based on a single hardware node running Nutanix Community Edition (CE), built following the instruction in Part I: How to setup a three-node NUC Nutanix CE cluster. If you don't have hardware readily available, the article, 6 Nested Virtualization Resources To Get You Started With Community Edition, describes how to run Nutanix CE as a virtual machine.The sFlow standard is widely supported by network equipment vendors, which combined with sFlow from each Nutanix appliance, delivers end to end visibility in the Nutanix cluster. The following screen captures from the free sFlowTrend tool are representative examples of the data available from the Nutanix appliance.
VMware NSX and vRNI Enabling Customer Operations
Recently, we had a customer challenge our team to prove to them the operational gains and demonstrate the cross-functional tooling VMware provides to assist them in scaling from zero to hundreds of VMs on the platform. Our goal was simple – exhibit a complete lifecycle for any customer to go from evaluation to production operation thereby enabling customer operations. The result was a video summary demoing our enhanced tooling that complements our simple three-step workflow: environmental assessment, plan and enforcement, and then continuous monitoring.
Step 1 – Environmental Assessment:
Understanding your environment is crucial in today’s modern world of IT – and is especially key at the early stages of identifying an easy to implement micro-segmentation plan. We’ve made this process very easy (even if you don’t have NSX in your environment yet!). VMware offers the free VMware Virtual Network Assessment that will take that identified traffic and start to make suggested firewall and security recommendations. Additionally, we provide correlated data and analysis to highlight useful metrics that are top-of-mind for network operators – such as the amount of East-West/North-South traffic present in your network, or how much data is seen on Continue reading