The VXLAN technology introduced by Cisco and VMware this week is intended to scale VLANs to accommodate the exploding number of virtual machines in the virtualized data center. In addition to Cisco ...

The rapidly growing technological advancements have resulted in higher data usage, making it critical to use the best process to achieve network administration efficiency. In any case, efficient ...

VXLAN is perfect for cloud computing where workloads can move across multiple data centers and multiple cloud providers. It works by translating between VLAN and VXLAN tags so a workload maintains its ...

The real question is do you want this device to be pushing/popping STags or just passing them along. Most ASICs shouldn't have an issue with the latter but if you need it to manipulate tags it's ...

There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed ...

VMware misses a great chance to push the networking world toward next-gen standards and delivers a narrow-minded work-around instead At VMworld 2011, VMware made a big deal about a new networking ...