Nicira

Nicira and OpsCode partnered to build an OpenStack cloud at VMware. In this webinar we’ll have the opportunity to get some insight about it. It allows their team to build location independant labs in 50 seconds, provisionned from a self service portal. Principal driver: cost, agility and speed. Operational Efficiency and business velocity were going down due to the inherent complexity of their infrastructure but after the implementation of cloud automation tricks, it all inversed. ...

Martin Casado Introduction. When we talk about virtualization, we are lying a little bit. It’s very important to know what’s this lie is. We have to work with 3 decades of madness. We have decoupled VM from the compute but we haven’t decoupled them to the physical network. Look at the addressing, the default gateway, the subnet, … it comes from the physical world. Resulting in : Slow provisionning limited placement Mobility is limited Hardware dependent Operationaly intensive The basic concept of network virtualization is the same as the compute one, a thin layer of software that sits in between. Virtual network will look exactly the same for a VM. If you have this virtual network a lot of the previous problems will disapear. You can move a VM anywhere you want. The physical won’t go away but we are agnostic. It’s not about protocols: STT, VXLAN, at the end of the day it’s about the virtual abstraction. We want to support any physical network. ...