Check-out the new Automation Leveraging NSX REST API Guide.
Authors: VMware NSX Technical Product Management Team
Thanks to all the contributors and reviewers of this document. A brief overview of the guide is provided below. Continue reading
It’s super important to understand and know your audience. Even when you think you’re not being technical, there are levels of un-technical you can drop to that make you cringe, but if your audience needs it, then it’s a great skill to learn.
As the network and software world hurtles along at super ridiculous speed (that’s the perception at least), it’s important to acknowledge that a lot of the enterprises and organisations out there are dealing with much the sameness of the last decade or so. Not everyone is riding the hype of Cloud, SDN or DevOps (shock horror?), so when your area of speciality in their world is the disruptive technology, be sure to have a card in your back pocket that helps you step it down a level. Many preconceived ideas exist in every world so do not be afraid to help them understand. You will get met with resistance but remember, you are threatening the way they do things today, therefore show them and help them see the value. It’s always critical to remember, someone else has been in at some point and convinced them to do what they’re doing today. Fair fight? Never is.
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Find out how to squeeze more performance out of your Ethernet LAN.
Breadth makes more sense than depth in today's IT environment.
When someone tells you that “TCP is a lossy protocol” during a job interview, don’t throw him out immediately – he was just trusting the Internet a bit too much (click to enlarge).
Everyone has a bad hair day, and it really doesn’t matter who published that text… but if you’re publishing technical information, at least try to do no harm.
Read more ...We would like to share more details with our customers and readers on the internet outages that occurred this morning and earlier in the week, and what we are doing to prevent these from happening again.
On June 17, at 08:32 UTC, our systems detected a significant packet loss between multiple destinations on one of our major transit provider backbone networks, Telia Carrier.
In the timeframe where the incident was being analysed by our engineers, the loss became intermittent and finally disappeared.
Today, Jun 20, at 12:10 UTC, our systems again detected massive packet loss on one of our major transit provider backbone networks: Telia Carrier.
Typically, transit providers are very reliable and transport all of our packets from one point of the globe to the other without loss - that’s what we pay them for. In this case, our packets (and that of other Telia customers), were being dropped.
While Internet users usually take it for granted that they can reach any destination in the world from their homes and businesses, the reality is harsher than that. Our planet is big, and Continue reading
This is a liveblog for the day 2 keynote of DockerCon 2016, which wraps up today in Seattle, WA. While today’s pre-keynote warm-up doesn’t include laser-equipped kittens, the music is much more upbeat and energetic (as opposed to yesterday’s more somber, dramatic music). If the number of laptops on the podium is any indicator (yesterday it was a cue to the number of demos planned), then today’s keynote will include a few demos as well.
Ben Golub kicks off the day 2 keynote—with the requisite coffee shot that is a sacrifice to the “demo gods”—and offers up some thanks to the supporters of last night’s party at the Space Needle. Golub quick reviews the key announcements and demos from the day 1 keynote (see my liveblog here). Today, though, will be focused on democratizing Docker in the enterprise. In referring to Docker’s adoption in the enterprise, Golub shares some numbers that vary widely, and admits that it’s really difficult to know what the real adoption rate is. He points to multiple “critical transformations” occurring within the enterprise: application modernization, cloud adoption, and DevOps (process/procedure/culture changes).
This leads Golub into a discussion of anti-patterns, or fallacies. The first fallacy he Continue reading