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I am in love!

May 26th, 2010 1 comment

Categories: Fun, Porsche Tags: , ,

Go Open vSwitch go, hurray for 1.0!

May 18th, 2010 No comments

Open vSwitch 1.0 was recently posted at openvswitch.org.  Check out a quick write up at virtualization.info.  And another at Infoworld.

The open vSwitch development effort was brought on following the introduction of VMWare’s DVS and Cisco’s Nexus 1000V last year.  This effort brings advanced networking capabilities to hypervisor platforms like Xen, XenServer and KVM.

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VMWorld Nicira Presentation….NEED YOUR HELP!

May 16th, 2010 2 comments

I am trying to get my company’s session approved for this year’s VMWorld.  When you aren’t a Platinum sponsor, it is a little bit more difficult to get these things pushed though.  So, I am asking for help from anyone who has a VMWorld account to go and vote for the session.  Many of you have been asking me what Nicira is up to.  This session is a great way to find out.  Here are the session details and link to cast your vote.

Cast your vote here

Title: Reworking the Network to Support Today’s Virtualization & Cloud Demands

Speaker: Martin Casado, Nicira CTO and Founder
Company: Nicira
Session Id: PC8430
Abstract: “The networking industry is lagging far behind the virtualization trends which are transforming our datacenters into pure resource pools of compute power. Traditional approaches to networking hamper the adoption of virtualization with scaling and mobility limitations, vendor lock-in on hardware platforms & management APIs, and an inability to seamlessly bridge physical and virtual topologies. This session will review a networking architecture that offer the guarantees of the physical network, while retaining the flexibility of the cloud. Solutions will be described which tackle problems such as providing strict isolation, bridging physical networks, providing accurate SLAs and billing information, and offering inter-subnet migration with persistent IP addresses. In this talk, real world experiences designing & building multi-tenant virtual networking infrastructures which scale to hundreds of thousands of virtual machines and tens of thousands of tenants will also be discussed. “