I’m a big fan of something I like to call thought experiments, where I like to come up with quick designs which may or may not actually work in the real world. Sometimes I also like to make wild leaps when thinking about the current technologies being used in the data center, and their futures. …
Virtualization
VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) has arrived in the slew of February 2, 2015 announcements from VMware. It was initially announced at VMworld 2014, and has been something I’ve been following closely. One of the key parts of the strategy for any OpenStack cloud is how the software itself will be consumed. Will your organization use …
Free is an interesting term to use when we talk about virtualization platforms, especially the industry leading VMware ESXi. As hypervisors have become standard fare in the data center we are starting to see more questions come up about the costs. Microsoft made a decision to take the hypervisor out of the cost equation by …
When you hear the three letters, KVM, the first think you may think of is Keyboard Video, and Mouse, that wondrous piece of technology that let you access the desktop of your servers when you were in the data center. I’m not talking about that KVM, I’m talking about the other KVM, Kernel-based Virtual Machine. …
One of the great things about FlexPod is its versatility. I can run multiple operating systems and applications on the same set of physical hardware. Just because I deploy a certain validated design doesn’t mean that other solutions can’t co-exist in the same hardware. Perhaps I only need eight of my 16 blades for VMware …
As I mentioned in my article about Open Source Software Defined Networking, many projects are trying to go beyond SDN, and also provide NFV. NFV is Network Function Virtualization, and is actually a separate concept from SDN. While SDN focuses on mostly layer 2 and layer 3 functionality, NFV is focused on layers 4 through …