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Application delivery controller technology plays many roles
As IT shops become application service providers, they are turning to application delivery controller technology to play a role in virtualization in addition to WAN optimization. Tip
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NVGRE standard primer: More VLANs and isolated tenants in the cloud
Microsoft's NVGRE standard offers competition to VMware's VXLAN standard, promising to create more VLANs that stretch across Layers 2 and 3 for multi-tenant cloud networks. Tip
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VXLAN standard primer: Extended VLANs, long-distance VM migration
The VXLAN standard aims to solve the long-distance VM migration dilemma by enabling extended VLANs across geographically dispersed data centers for a multi-tenant cloud network. Tip
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vSwitch architecture best practices
vSwitch architecture varies depending on the type of traffic being managed and how many physical NICs are connected. Learn these best practices. Tip
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vSphere vSwitch primer: Design considerations
It takes the right kind of vSphere vSwitch design to implement segmentation for traffic manageability, security, redundancy and failover in a virtual environment. Tip
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Virtualization security challenges are plentiful: What's the answer?
The network plays a role in addressing virtualization security challenges, but typical firewalls are not necessarily part of the solution. Tip
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The ideal virtualization networking solution may not exist yet
In a perfect world, virtualization networking would mean non-blocked, any-to-any access between nodes on the network, but that doesn't really exist yet. So what's the alternative? Tip
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Virtual network appliances: Benefits and drawbacks
There's lots of talk about network virtualization benefits, but are virtual network appliances all they're cracked up to be? Only in some scenarios. Tip
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vSphere networking features: distributed vSwitches; private VLANs; IPv6
VMware's release of vSphere 4 brings to the table a host of enhanced vSphere networking features that give network managers enhanced control over VM traffic with distributed vSwitches, as well as IPv6 support and the ability to build private VLANs. Tip
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How to configure Virtual Switch Tagging for vSphere VLANs
Virtual Switch Tagging is the most commonly used method of 802.1Q VLAN tagging for VLANs for vSphere. In this tip, learn how to configure a switch for VLAN Switch Tagging. Tip