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Sam’s #VMworld 2017: Network and Security keynote and NSX-T Architecture Deep Dive #NET1863BE

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Posts in this series
  1. Looking forward to #VMworld EMEA 2017
  2. Sam's #VMworld 2017: Before I go...
  3. Simon's #VMworld 2017: Sunday and Monday
  4. Sam's #VMworld 2017: vSAN Specialist and VMware {Code} Hackathon
  5. Sam's #VMworld 2017: Day One General Session
  6. Sam’s #VMworld 2017: Intro to NSX-T Architecture #NET1510BE and NSX-T and Kubernetes #NET1522BE
  7. Simon's #VMworld 2017: Tuesday
  8. Sam's #VMworld 2017: Day Two General Session
  9. Sam's #VMworld 2017: Network and Security keynote and NSX-T Architecture Deep Dive #NET1863BE
  10. Simon's #VMworld 2017: Wednesday

Transforming Networking and Security for the Digital Era

Wednesday morning I attended the Network and Security keynote which, if I’m honest, I found to be a bit boring. To be fair, it was probably aimed at business leaders and maybe not those that are technical. There were three customer stories, but I would have liked to have heard much more about the problems that NSX solved for them specifically, rather than being datacenter transformation/cloud journey stories that included NSX. For me, it felt like there was nothing new in the presentation that hadn’t been covered in the general sessions. I would have liked to have seen and heard a bit more what the NSBU’s leadership think is going to be big over the next 5 years. [Read more…]

Sam’s #VMworld 2017: Intro to NSX-T Architecture #NET1510BE and NSX-T and Kubernetes #NET1522BE

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Posts in this series
  1. Looking forward to #VMworld EMEA 2017
  2. Sam's #VMworld 2017: Before I go...
  3. Simon's #VMworld 2017: Sunday and Monday
  4. Sam's #VMworld 2017: vSAN Specialist and VMware {Code} Hackathon
  5. Sam's #VMworld 2017: Day One General Session
  6. Sam’s #VMworld 2017: Intro to NSX-T Architecture #NET1510BE and NSX-T and Kubernetes #NET1522BE
  7. Simon's #VMworld 2017: Tuesday
  8. Sam's #VMworld 2017: Day Two General Session
  9. Sam's #VMworld 2017: Network and Security keynote and NSX-T Architecture Deep Dive #NET1863BE
  10. Simon's #VMworld 2017: Wednesday

It will be no surprise, given my impending move to the VMware PSO NSX Practice, that this morning I’ve been focussing on NSX-T. The two sessions I attended were the Introduction to NSX-T Architecture and Integrating NSX-T with Kubernetes. In a weird twist of scheduling, the Kubernetes session was before the introduction session, but it worked out OK.

I found the Kubernetes session really enjoyable and really felt like the speakers delivered a great overview of the integration and how they work together. I was pleasantly surprised with how familiar a lot of the concepts were, coming from an NSX-v and vRealize Automation background. It’s similar, but different! This is something I can really get my teeth into.

Moving into the NSX-T architecture session, Kevin and Dimitri walked through the components and functions of NSX-T and demonstrated integration with OpenStack as a cloud management platform to automate deployments. Again I was pleased with the familiarity of all the concepts and terminology. [Read more…]