VMware vCloud Suite 5.5, vSAN and NSX walk-through
VMware has launched three new websites which will help you to get up to speed with VMware vCloud Suite 5.5, vSAN and NSX. An extensive website gives you a detailed overview of the entire vCloud Suite with all the new features VMware released at VMworld….
Which virtual switch to select in vSphere 5
There are a lot of choices to be made for networking in VMware vSphere 5. We’ve got the good ol’ vSwith, vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) and finally the Nexus 1000V from Cisco. But what is the best one? vSwitch (vSphere standard switch) A vSphere standard…
Cisco Nexus 1000V switch for free
Last month Cisco announced version 2.1 of their Nexus 1000V virtual distributed switch. Now Cisco has announced a new pricing and packaging strategy the Nexus 1000V. From version 2.1, which is now in beta, there will be two editions of the Nexus 1000V, an Essential…
Cisco UCS: What’s maximum number of VIFs per blade?
As one of the largest Cisco Partners in the Netherlands we do a lot of Cisco UCS implementations and as the first company in the Netherlands with the Cisco Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization, where the place in the Netherlands for Cisco UCS troubleshooting. Last…
Oracle acquires Xsigo Systems
After software-defined-computing and software-defined-storage, the next big hit is software-defined-networking to complete the software-defined-datacenter. And the hunt is on! Last week VMware announced the acquisition of Nicira and yesterday Oracle announced they bought Xsigo, one of the leading providers of network virtualization technology. Why? Oracle…
VMware acquires Nicira, the next step in cloud solutions.
Yesterday VMware announced their acquisition of Nicira, a 5 year-old company that has pioneered software-defined networking (SDN). VMware will pay $1.26B to buy Nicira, a company that has built software that has done for networking what VMware has done to virtualize computing. Nicira was created…
EqualLogic on 10Gbit
10GbE connections are getting more common in the datacenters, even for SMB 10GbE is getting within their reach. In the storage market Dell EqualLogic lagged behind large storage vendors like NetApp in functionality and connectivity but now EqualLogic released their new products on 10GbE, solving…
IBM 5000V Distributed Virtual Switch
Finally there’s a second VMware partner who decided to create a third part distributed virtual switch for VMware vSphere. On February 14th IBM announced their IBM 5000V Distributed Virtual Switch. The planned availability date for this product is February 23, 2012. The IBM System Networking…
Deciphering the Cisco 3750 product code
When designing a virtual infrastructure an important bit in the design is the storage infrastructure also called the Storage Area Network (SAN). In a SAN based on iSCSI we often use Cisco 3750 switches, but when you are going to select the right Cisco 3750…
Emulex releases 10Gb/s Ethernet and iSCSI adapter
Today Emulex announced the general availability of their new OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapter (UCNA) Product Family, specifically the OCe10102-I 10Gb/s Ethernet iSCSI Adapter and OCe10102-N 10Gb/s Ethernet Adapter are very interesting. The Emulex OneConnect UCNA is a single-chip, high performance 10Gb/s Ethernet adapter that…