Technology Short Take #71
Welcome to Technology Short Take #71! As always, I have a list of links related to various data center technologies found below; hopefully something here proves useful.
Networking
- Dmitri Kalintsev is back with another article in a series of articles on using hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) with VMware NSX. In this case, it’s on validating HW VTEP deployment for integration with NSX. In particular, Dmitri points out that you need connectivity both on the management plane as well as on the data plane.
- Here’s a handy post by Dale Coghlan on how to find object IDs for just about anything in a VMware NSX environment.
Servers/Hardware
- Intel has finally started shipping silicon photonics gear, according to this report from El Reg (news coming out of IDF16). A more detailed analysis of silicon photonics can be had over at The Next Platform.
Security
- The use of VMware NSX for microsegmentation is a really popular use case, and so the topic of scripting distributed firewall (DFW) rules often comes up. Dale Coghlan has an article on bulk DFW rule creation that might be helpful in such instances.
- This blog post on shielded VMs in Windows Server 2016 is a bit light Continue reading