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Troubleshoot Networking in Microsoft Azure

Everything can be found with Wireshark! I was recently involved in a scenario where I was tasked at troubleshooting why some features were not working in Azure, related to traffic flow between a service in Azure and virtual machine on-premises. For those that are used to “Cisco” troubleshooting or network troubleshooting, moving that knowledge to Azure …

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Overview of VMware vRealize Network

VMware announced the acquisition of Arkin a year back, with their platform (Arkin Visibility and Operations Platform) Arkin has out-of-box integrations with virtualization (ex: VMware vCenter, VMware NSX, Palo Alto Virtual Firewall) as well as physical infrastructure components (physical chassis, switches and routers), providing end to end visibility and analytics into the network. This has …

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Windows Server Containers with Overlay networking for Swarm

With today’s release of Windows Server Network Overlay network driver for Windows Server it is now possible to run Windows Server in a docker swarm mode to have the capability to have containers cross-host communication. This has been available for Windows 10 for some time and with the Creator update. So for those who aren’t …

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Software-defined networking difference between VXLAN and NVGRE

Myself being quite in the starting phase of software-defined networking and all the different network virtuliazation technologies out there, I thought I would do a summurization between the largest different vendors in this market. What differenciates them (from a protocol perspective) and why on earth would we use them ? First of, network virtualization is …

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Software-defined networking difference between VXLAN and NVGRE

Myself being quite in the starting phase of software-defined networking and all the different network virtuliazation technologies out there, I thought I would do a summurization between the largest different vendors in this market. What differenciates them (from a protocol perspective) and why on earth would we use them ? First of, network virtualization is …

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