Tag: VXLAN

Learn more about the Cisco Nexus 93240YC-FX2 switch, 100 Gbps fabric options, and the new alternative VPC with fabric peering.

More and more sites are deploying Cisco Nexus 9K-based fabrics. Basically, if the time has come for datacenter switch refresh, you have two choices: Nexus 7700 etc. with a “classic [...]

If you think about it, one problem in networking is that there are too many applications, and too little time. I greatly enjoyed a recent blog by  @RealLisaC, seasonally titled The Ghost of Application-Aware Networking. Excellent reading! It can be found at http://theborgqueen.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/the-ghost-of-application-aware-networking/. The following blog represents various thoughts that it and my…

You may have noticed the NetCraftsmen News page article mentioning that Terry Slattery and I were invited and plan to attend Network Field Day #5. See also http://techfieldday.com/. I plan to listen to vendor presentations, learn,  and contribute what I can. I can also ask relevant questions for you (taking the…

VXLAN, or Virtual Extensible LAN, is a recent proposed standard technology from VMware and Cisco. It extends the concept of a VLAN in a manner that scales well for multi-tenant [...]

What is the future of Disaster Recovery? That’s the obvious question after my blog on https://netcraftsmen.com/blogs/entry/improving-disaster-recovery.html. To recapitulate, that blog concluded that by doing datacenter basics well, we can help [...]