VMware Touts Q1 Growth but Doesn’t Give NSX Numbers
An upbeat earnings report overall, featuring NSX, AirWatch, and vCloud Air.
An upbeat earnings report overall, featuring NSX, AirWatch, and vCloud Air.
Not quite a home run, but Yoran draws good marks as he (vaguely) calls for standards in security reporting.
Big Switch Networks and Cyphort have just announced a new partnership that will bring a SDN defense product to market by combining Big Tap and Advanced Threat Defense Platform.
Most of you have probably picked up on the news of VMware’s new container-optimized Linux distribution, code-named “Photon”. (More details here.) In this post, I’m going to provide a very quick walkthrough on running Photon on VMware Fusion via Vagrant. This walkthrough will leverage a Vagrant box for Photon that has already been created.
To make things easier, I’ve added a photon
directory to my GitHub “learning-tools” repository. Feel free to pull those files down to make it easier to follow along.
I assume that you’ve already installed Vagrant, VMware Fusion, and the Vagrant plugin for VMware. If you haven’t, you’ll want to complete those tasks—and verify that everything is working as expected—before proceeding.
Install an additional Vagrant plugin that enables Vagrant to better detect and interact with Photon using this command:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-guests-photon
If you don’t install this plugin, you’ll likely get a non-fatal error about Vagrant being unable to perform the networking configuration. (Review the GitHub repository for this plugin if you want/need more details. Also, note that a PR against Vagrant to eliminate the need for this plugin was opened and merged; this fix should show up in a future release of Vagrant.)
QoS inside a VXLAN tunnel is among the proto-SDN features AlcaLu is touting for its OmniSwitch.