Tag: Data Centers

Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review

[fancy_header3 variation=”slategrey”]Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review[/fancy_header3] Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review :In 2012 Google opened the doors up to some of it’s data centers in the typical colorful fashion we expect from Google. Hyper-scale content and cloud providers are ultra secretive about their trade secrets. Facebook’s Opencompute project is probably the… Continue reading Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review

IETF Draft – BGP-signaled end-system IP/VPNs Contrail

[fancy_header3 variation=”slategrey”]IETF Draft – BGP-signaled end-system IP/VPNs Contrail[/fancy_header3] There is a new IETF Draft – BGP-signaled end-system IP/VPNs draft-marques-l3vpn-end-system submitted for review. It is quite the whose who on the working group of traditional networking vanguard companies like Cisco, Juniper, Infinera, AT&T labs, Verizon and a new comer to the race Contrail. Contrail is an… Continue reading IETF Draft – BGP-signaled end-system IP/VPNs Contrail

Software Defined Data Center Slidedeck

Software Defined Data Center SlideDeck: Posting a SlideDeck from a presentation while back titled Software Defined Data Centers, if the graphics help anyone with their own presentations have at em! The only different concepts are some public cloud thoughts and scenarios and some analogies to wireless controllers and SDN deployments. Not all networks must be built… Continue reading Software Defined Data Center Slidedeck

How I Learned to Hate the DCI

How I Learned to Hate the DCI: Layer 2 data center interconnects (DCI) is still alive and well. I blame VMware with vMotion and now every other Hypervisor vendor on the planet. Live workload migration is certainly vital to most operations. The further up the stack that happens the more flexibility you have with choosing more layers beneath… Continue reading How I Learned to Hate the DCI

OTV configuration notes

Quick notes on OTV. I have not put this on lab gear yet so there may be typos. It does require licensing so make sure you have that budgeted, if not its a 20kish surprise which sucks.

#The Overlay interface ID (int overlay1) must match at both sites. A Vlan can only be assigned to… Continue reading OTV configuration notes