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The VIRTUMANIA continues with Episode 14! Marc, Rick and I host very special guests David Davis and Greg Schulz for a discussion about networking for virtualization. The following is the podcast summary:

VIRTUMANIA Podcast Episode 14 – Virtualization and Networking Turf Wars. Hosts Rich Brambley (@rbrambley) of VMETC and Marc Farley (@3parfarley) of 3Par and StorageRap.com with regular Rick Vanover (@rickvanover) of RickVanover.com are joined by special guests David Davis (@davidmdavis)vmwarevideos.com and Greg Schulz (@storageio) of storageioblog.com. This week’s episode covers the important but often overlooked network architecture needed for successful virtual infrastructure. Our discussion eventually compares the data center battle for control, management, and monitoring of virtual machine traffic to rival gangs dancing for superiority in the Michael Jackson music video "Bad". Thanks to Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) of Chi Corporation for this Infosmack Production.

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The following links offer more information on some of the topics mentioned in VIRTUMANIA Episode 14:

Distributed Switches

VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch

Cisco Nexus 1000v Series Switch

Arista’s New vEOS Providing Competition for the Cisco Nexus 1000V- http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/44834

"A single instance of vEOS can manage 64 ESX hosts and provides almost all the features 1000V does (and a few 1000V doesn’t). Plus, vEOS is setup to provide easy migration of network attributes to cloud computing via VMware’s OVF architecture. With OVF and vEOS, a VM could be moved to a cloud with all its network configurations intact."

New Citrix virtual switch-  http://www.chriswolf.com/?p=362

"I’m expecting Citrix to offer more details of the open source Xen virtual switch in the near future, but in the mean time, here’s what I can tell you:

• The virtual switch will be open source and initially compatible with both Xen- and KVM-based hypervisors
• It will provide centralized network management
• It will support advanced network management features such as Netflow, SPAN, RSPAN, and ERSPAN
• It will initially be available as a plug-in to XenCenter
• It will support security features such as ACLs and 802.1x"

Nexus 1000V – Who Wants One?

How will the Cisco Nexus 1000V change your job role?

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=667

What I thought was most interesting about the Cisco Nexus 1000V was that I believe it will truly change the way that Cisco network admins and virtual server admins do their job. No longer will the virtual server admin have to say “trust me” when it comes to the network configuration. Now, the same person who administers the Cisco network can telnet or SSH to the management interface for the VMware ESX Server / Cisco virtual network switch and administer this new switch just like they are used to doing — by using the Cisco IOS.

Xangati

http://www.xangati.com/news_pr031010.php

Xangati for ESX – tightly integrates with VMware’s hypervisor to instantly summarize traffic traversing a vSwitch, providing valuable visibility that completely eliminates these once troublesome “blind spots.” The turnkey virtual appliance is offered via a 14-day high-value trial, with the true plug-and-play nature of the solution enabling it to be installed and yield value in less than 30 minutes.

Xangati Management Dashboard – can track up to 5,000 identities (e.g. a hypervisor, virtual server, virtual desktop, VoIP phone), providing complete enterprise-wide visibility, alerting, reporting and recording for hundreds of applications. The product comes in both a Standard and Enterprise edition, depending on the size and scope of the IT infrastructure and budget. It too is plug-and-play, with ROI in less than two hours.

Xangati Gives Virtual Management a Real Advantage

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Networking/Xangati-Gives-Virtual-Management-a-Real-Advantage-302549/

New Xangati virtual appliances help build business case for buying Cisco Nexus 1000V switches

http://www.bradreese.com/blog/xangati-3-19-2010.htm

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