Ron Flax is the Vice President of August Schell, a reseller of VMware products and IT services company that specializes in delivering services to commercial accounts and the federal government, particularly intelligence and U.S. Department of Defense. Ron is a VCDX-NV certified network virtualization professional and a VMware vExpert. We spoke with Ron about network virtualization and the NSX career path.
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The most exciting thing about network virtualization, I think, is the transformative nature of this technology. Networks have been built the same way for the last 20 to 25 years. Nothing has really changed. A lot of new features have been built, a lot of different technologies have come around networks, but the fundamental nature of how networks are built has not changed. But VMware NSX, because it’s a software-based product, has completely altered everything. It enables a much more agile approach to networks: the ability to automate the stand-up and tear-down of networks; the ability to produce firewalling literally at the virtual network interface. And because things are done at software speed, you can now make changes to the features and functions of networking products at software speed. You no longer have to deal with Continue reading
Here’s a short question I got from one of my readers:
I am a CCIE in SP/DC & working as Technical Architect in US. I follow your website but I don’t know where to start for SDN/Virtualization/Openstack…
I guess he’s not alone, so here’s a long list of resources I put together in the last 5+ years.
Before I get started: you’ll find links to most of these resources on ipSpace.net SDN Resources page.
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I’ve been playing more with SaltStack recently and I realized that my first attempt at using Salt to provision my cluster was a little shortsighted. The problem was, it only worked for my exact lab configuration. After playing with Salt some more, I realized that the Salt configuration could be MUCH more dynamic than what I had initially deployed. That being said, I developed a set of Salt states that I believe can be consumed by anyone wanting to deploy a Kubernetes lab on bare metal. To do this, I used a few more of the features that SaltStack has to offer. Namely, pillars and the built-in Jinja templating language.
My goal was to let anyone with some Salt experience be able to quickly deploy a fully working Kubernetes cluster. That being said, the Salt configuration can be tuned to your specific environment. Have 3 servers you want to try Kubernetes on? Have 10? All you need to do is have some servers that meet the following prerequisites and tune the Salt config to your environment.
Environment Prerequisites
-You need at least 2 servers, one for the master and one for Continue reading
Fiber types are differentiated as multimode or single mode. Single mode was always easy for me to understand but I could never quite understand what ‘multimode’ actually meant. I’m written some notes for myself on this topic that I thought I’d … Continue reading
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Big names, big money, but few details on an actual product.