Comments on: Meet Nicira. Yes, people will call it the VMware of networking

By: JV

JV — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:52:37 +0000

Since OVS (Open vSwitch) performance is quite limited, I do not understand the benefit of this new option that Nicira is proposing?

Then, what are the differences with Vyatta/Citrix vNetwork protosal or with QFabric from Juniper?

By: Ratnesh Sharma

Ratnesh Sharma — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:44:26 +0000

Wes:

I would watch out for Citrix- they have the right elements in place- technology leadership in virtualization, cloud and networking (NetScaler). They were also the first folks to come out with a virtual load balancer. Hopefully someone from Citrix will comment.

By: Wes Felter

Wes Felter — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:31:41 +0000

VMware is certainly planning to make network virtualization a feature (see vCDNI), but it’s not clear that some other hypervisor vendors have the engineering chops to compete with Nicira.

By: PJ Brunet

PJ Brunet — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:02:54 +0000

I was thinking along those same lines too. Although the “cloudbursting” buzzword is very sexy IMO ;-)

By: Sam Costa

Sam Costa — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:15:26 +0000

Why wouldn’t this capability simply become a feature integrated within an existing vendor’s product?

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:01:33 +0000

Simply awesome. This technology will save a lot of people a lot of time

By: Mayor McCheese

Mayor McCheese — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:50:27 +0000

You may wish to check out this great new site I’ve discovered, it’s called “Google”.

The single “fundamental” (also, fundamental…what?) about the internet is the existence of whiny cowards, hiding behind their keyboards.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:33:06 +0000

What is a virtualized server? Is that what you are asking here, or what is a virtual machine? A virtualized server is one running a hypervisor that abstracts the underlying hardware from the applications running on top of it. A virtual machine is the abstraction the application “sees.” Thus one could run multiple VMs on a virtualized server.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:28:04 +0000

thanks. I must stop writing these late at night.

By: David Bennett

David Bennett — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:20:33 +0000

What is a virtual server?