AWS early challenges

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware are reportedly in talks about possibly teaming up to develop data center software products, according to The Information, which cited anonymous sources.

Unfortunately, the article doesn’t have much if any detail on what that product would be. The speculation is it might be a stack-like product, since VMware already provides what would be the base software for such a product and stacks are becoming the in thing.

Already there is OpenStack, the open-source product that runs cloud services in a data center, and Microsoft just shipped Azure Stack, its answer to OpenStack that will allow the same features of its Azure public cloud to run within a company’s private data center.

Google, which has been an also-ran in the cloud market for some time, made a similar move by partnering with Nutanix, a hyperconverged infrastructure vendor that is coming up fast in the market and likely an acquisition target. Their deal promised an easy way to merge Nutanix infrastructure with Google Cloud Platform.

HISTORY OF NETWORKING – DANIEL WALTON – BGP OPTIMIZATIONS

В гости в этот раз позвали Daniel Walton - одного из инженеров, который работал над реализацией BGP в Cisco.

http://thenetworkcollective.com/2017/08/hon-walton-bgp-optimizations/

Со Скифором будем кумулус конфижить в субботу, приходите посмотреть как он тупить будет (в визио кумулус конфигурить не научишься)

Приходите в субботу к 14:00 на стрим https://www.twitch.tv/sk1f3r и будем пытаться собирать с нуля IP Fabric (2 spine, 4 leaf) на Cumulus Linux VX.
В сценарии знакомство с Cumulus Linux и их фирменной CLI-оболочкой NCLU, unnumbered eBGP, VXLAN, LNV и EVPN.
Стримеры: @sk1f3r & @mxssl

5 host network configurations for MLAG

Пацаны из Cumulus запилили пост про настройку агрегации портов в разных OS.

https://cumulusnetworks.com/blog/5-host-network-configurations-mlag/

Network Virtualization For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition

Небольшая книга, в которой объясняется, что такое виртуализация сети с точки зрения VMware.

Micro‐segmentation For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition

Из той же серии, микросегментация от VMware.

Запись стрима доступна на ютубе

https://youtu.be/f5XHHEjSk4c

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking – But Were Afraid to Ask
Updated: June 6, 2017

Обновленная версия популярной презентации про оптику

https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/2_Steenbergen_Tutorial_New_And_v2.pdf

Hyperconverged Infrastructure For Dummies
® , HPE SimpliVity Special Edition

Гиперконвергентные системы для чайников от HPE.

Cisco Nexus 9516 data center switch aces a grueling high-density stress test

Как Networkworld стресс-тест Cisco Nexus 9516 проводил.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3211356/lan-wan/cisco-nexus-9516-data-center-switch-aces-a-grueling-high-density-stress-test.html

IPv6 route lookup on Linux

Vincent Bernat рассказывает как происходит IPv6 лукап в линуксе. Забавный момент прям в самом начале:

With its implementation of IPv6 routing tables using radix trees, Linux offers subpar performance (450 ns for a full view — 40,000 routes) compared to IPv4 (50 ns for a full view — 500,000 routes) but fair memory usage (20 MiB for a full view).

https://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2017-ipv6-route-lookup-linux

OPTIMIZE YOUR DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE

Небольшая бесплатная серия туториалов от Ивана Пепельняка на тему оптимизации инфрастуктуры ДЦ. Еслиб еще те, кто строят инфраструктуру этих самых ДЦ его бы слушали...

https://www.ipspace.net/Optimize_Data_Center_Infrastructure
https://www.ipspace.net/Optimize_Data_Center_Infrastructure/Virtualize_the_Servers
https://www.ipspace.net/Optimize_Data_Center_Infrastructure/Ditch_Legacy_Technologies
https://www.ipspace.net/Optimize_Data_Center_Infrastructure/Reduce_the_Number_of_Server-to-Network_Uplinks
https://www.ipspace.net/Optimize_Data_Center_Infrastructure/Use_Distributed_File_System
https://www.ipspace.net/Optimize_Data_Center_Infrastructure/Virtualize_Network_Services

Why Compatibility And Support Don’t Justify $1000 Optics

Интересный пост в продолжение этой темы.

http://packetpushers.net/overpriced-optics-by-oems/

1000 VM per rack is the new minimum

1000 виртуалок на рэк - правильный дизайн.

http://virtual-red-dot.info/1000-vm-per-rack-is-the-new-minimum/

Как выглядит сертификация Cisco на 2017 год.

Broken packets: IP fragmentation is flawed

Пост в блоге Cloudflare про IP фрагментацию.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ip-fragmentation-is-broken/

Google unveils a new, cheaper networking option for cloud customers: the public internet

Хитрый Гугл.

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/google-unveils-new-cheaper-networking-option-cloud-customers-public-internet/

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Network Administrator's Guide to DevOps
The transformation of physical networks and infrastructure into easier-to-manage virtualized/software components, hybridization of IT operations and software development roles, and the despecialization of job duties, among others, means that traditional networking roles— and arguably any IT roles with job titles ending with “admin”— will invariably disappear. Network administrators must understand DevOps to stay competitive in the technology field.

• How DevOps compares to Network Administration 
• Common tools utilized by DevOps teams
• The projected future of network management