Rick Donato

Introduction HPEs - Virtual Connect FlexFabric networking, can take a while to wrap your head around. So I thought I would take a moment to explain what HPE Virtual Connect is, and also share some knowledge and also resources that you may find useful. What is Virtual Connect? Virtual Connect

Introduction Within this short article, we will answer the question: What is a FlexibleLOM? First of all, What is a LOM? LOM LOM (LAN on motherboard) refers to a chip or chipset capable of network connections that have been embedded directly on the motherboard of a desktop, workstation or server.

Introduction This article provides a summary to some of the key points around vSAN network design. For full details around vSAN network design please review https://storagehub.vmware.com/export_to_pdf/vmware-r-vsan-tm-network-design. What is vSAN? vSAN is a hypervisor-converged, software-defined storage solution for the software-defined data centre. It is

Introduction In our previous posts , we installed the management plane aka VSD, and also the controller aka VSC. We will now install the VRS. VRS is the virtual switch that replaces OVS within each of the compute nodes. This is achieved via an RPM install on each of the nodes.

Introduction Within this 3 part series on how to build a virtual Nuage SDN lab, we previously looked at the topology, the OpenStack installation and VSD deployment. Next, we will now look at the steps involved in installing the VSC (Virtualized Services Controller). Once installed our controller will talk XMPP

Introduction Welcome to this 3 part course on installing a virtualized Nuage VCS (DC-SDN) lab. The series will be broken down into the following parts: * Part1: VSD Installation (Management Plane) * Part2: VSC Installation (Control Plane) * Part3: VRS Installation (DataPlane) Note: The VSP version we will be installing will be 5.

Introduction If you look at the market around OpenStack distro's it can be daunting, there are many flavours, that all look to do the same thing - automate the installation of OpenStack and ease the tweaking of the nerd knobs. In my quest to find a suitable OpenStack

VMware recently announced changes to the NSX portfolio (the new NSX pillars shown below), introducing new NSX product pillars, on in other words a rebrand on the previous NSX product set. Figure 1: NSX Portfolio However, when it comes to licensing, it is good to know that the previous licensing

What is the Open Compute Project (OCP)? Founded by Facebook, Intel, Rackspace, and Goldman Sachs in April 2011, the Open Compute Project (OCP) provides open source standards for high performance and highly efficient Data Centers. This includes servers, storage, networking and security. Let us look at the two main projects