- Anthony Burke over at Cisco Inferno has a good blog post on what he believes the current state of play is with NSX. After reading it I have to agree. I believe that to reach any kind of scale we need tech like NSX. Overlays are here to stay.
- Scott Lowe has a great blog series on NSX (was NVP when it was Nicira) that I believe is a must read. Don’t worry about skipping ahead to part 7, it has links back to the previous articles.
- I have to admit that when NSX was talked about at VMworld the marketing message put me offside, the belief that decades of evolving network “art” should be thrown out the window because a single company said so looked pretty delusional. Thankfully the strength of the product and some blog posts by credible networking professionals allowed me to see through the marketing fog to see the “next generation” product that NSX really is. With that in mind Paul Fries talks about the alienation of networking that I believe is purely a function of poor marketing. I would like to differ on one point however, the networking industry has been in a constant state of change for a long time, it just doesn’t come in a 2.0 release nor for the whole industry at once.
- I can’t really add anything to this one. James over at Digerati has a must read post on NSX, SDN and SDDC.
- If you are up for a bit of listening that I would highly recommend the Packet Pushers NSX sponsored podcast. They have Scott Lowe and Brad Hedlund on so you know it is going to be great. There is even a companion PDF!
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The Internet Fishing Trawler: Food For Thought Edition
New versions of the Dell iDRAC have a feature to auto-lock the OS when the last virtual console has disconnected. I think this is pretty useful and I’d like something like this inside VMware but it is obviously more important for physical servers.
John Allspaw at the Kitchen Soap blog has a really great post on being a senior engineer. This is one of those articles that I think everyone should read. I hope to live up to what is described in that post.
The Internet Fishing Trawler: I Ain’t Afraid Of No Quota Edition
Seems there is a bit of a change in the way mailbox sizes are calculated in Exchange 2013. You can read a good argument on why it isn’t a big issue from Tony at Windows IT Pro. To me it is only a non-issue if the numbers in Outlook match up. If users find they’ve suddenly lost quota they tend to get pretty annoyed!
Having upgraded to Windows 8.1 it is very clear Microsoft want you to have a Microsoft Account. This isn’t that bad and can provide some nice features however they seem to be doing this at the expense of corporate identities. The true power Microsoft are trying to gain is over your data. In light of this the SBS Diva Blog (R.I.P SBS) has a post on how to disable the Microsoft account using GPO.
The Internet Fishing Trawler: Looks Like Server Hardware Stuff Edition
I usually shy away from vendor battles as the technology should speak for itself but sometimes the FUD from vendors can be a bit much. Jamie Doherty at the Bits and Bytes blog takes down a recent HP video for OneView. Vendors shouldn’t purposefully misuse competitors products in a video on the *Internet,*it isn’t really a good look.
Kevin Houston over at Blades Made Simple has a great comparison of the maximum number of 10GbE network cards for 2x socket servers in various blade vendors’ chassis. Just a note on the UCS one, I’ve heard that 40GbE is on its way. That is a lot of network in a single chassis!
The Internet Fishing Trawler: Anti-Virus Is Dead To Me Edition
It seems Kaspersky Anti-Virus is identifying tcpip.sys as malware. How can this be happening in 2013? This issue has been going on since AV was introduced and yet there has been no movement. Very sad.
Every time an AV issue like this one crops up I feel the need to post this article by the SANS Computer Forensics blog. I feel that at this point AV simply checks a box and provides no real protection against anything but the lowest and most common threats.