Edge Cloud

Edge Cloud is a personal blog about various technical subjects, especially data centers, virtualization, networking and cloud computing.

Physical networks for VMware NSX

September 4, 2013 4 minute read #Network, #NSX, #VMware

Example of a physical network design for VMware NSX, taking into consideration fault containment, traffic isolation. multi-tenant security and redundancy.

Using F5 Big-IP LTM with IPv6

August 12, 2013 5 minute read #F5, #IPv6

A very simple way to enable legacy IPv4-based web applications to be reachable via IPv6 is to use an IPv4/IPv6-enabled load balancer - such as the F5 Big-IP ...

IPv6 deployment: Using IPv6 link-local addresses as default gateway

August 7, 2013 8 minute read #IPv6, #Network

Using the simple to remember IPv6 link-local address fe80::1 as the default gateway.

Terminating a 6in4 tunnel on an Arista switch

July 18, 2013 5 minute read #Arista, #Network

Using Arista’s underlying Linux OS to configure a 6in4 tunnel for IPv6 connectivity.

TCP Throughput tests between Amazon AWS regions

June 28, 2013 1 minute read #AWS, #Performance

Looking at Single TCP session throughput performance between Amazon AWS regions and comparing it to the throughput between a similar setup across the Internet.