Cisco ACI And VMware NSX: Better Together
The SDN platforms often are pitted against each other, but actually are complementary.
The SDN platforms often are pitted against each other, but actually are complementary.
If you think that BGP is a Server Provider (SP) only protocol and is not your business in the data center, then better think again because BGP is coming to your territory. Traditionally for Enterprises and DCs; BGP commonly took part at the Internet edge in multi-homing scenarios (the internet from multiple ISPs) where BGP provided …
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Nuage Networks is a spinoff from Alcatel-Lucent (now under Nokia as they acquisition Alcatel recently) and also a name of software defined network (SDN) overlay solution for datacenters and direct competitor for a bit more widely known vmWare’s NSX. However Alcatel/Nokia are not the only backers here, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) also got a vested interest in this technology and jumped on the partnership with Alcatel/Nokia generating their own spin-off called “HPE’s Distributed Cloud Networking” or HPE DCN for short. In this article I am going to quickly summarize what it should be capable of doing, and then I am going do a run down of how to install this system in a home lab environment, while trying to minimize the requirements for a home install of this beast sacrificing a few redundancies that you would normally have in a DC setup.
I am marking this article as “Part 1” because this installation will only provide the most very basic overlay solution and there will be follow-ups that will go into different aspects later (e.g. redundancy, cooperation with vmWare ESX high availability or L3 VTEPs). For now we are going to setup a simple lab, trying to minimize the Continue reading
As you noticed from the previous articles, lately I have been playing with some various tunnelling techniques and today I am presenting MACSEC. Most of the documentation resources about MACSEC implementation on the web, at this moment, are the ones showing various vendors implementation, especially Cisco's approach. Although it's not a new topic, Linux support for MACSEC was added only recently.
Looking backward at last week or forward into next week. Stream of thinking. unregenerate – adj. not reformed, unreconstructed, obstinate, stubborn BGPv4 is Not a Standard BGPv4 RFC4271 is only a draft standard. It is not an Internet standard. It’s still not finished, has several errata and over 50 extensions are currently underway in the […]
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Although container technology has been around for more than a decade, the market is ripe for startups.
Although container technology has been around for more than a decade, the market is ripe for startups.
This week, our readers enjoyed some big Docker news, including the great milestone of making Docker 1.12, Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows generally available for production environments, answers to the ten most often asked Docker questions and more. As we begin a new week, let’s recap our top 5 most-read stories for the week of July 24, 2016:
Someone out there might be ready to pull another Dell.