Introduction: Networking in VMware Cloud Director (vCD) is the most complex and least understood component of its architecture. Among the different networking options was the introduction of vCD Network Isolation (vCDNI). In this blog I am going to attempt to give you a better understanding of vCDNI and how it works technically. Background: vCDNI is [...]
By now you should have heard a lot about VMware Cloud Director (vCD) and how you can use to create Public, Private, and even Hybrid Clouds based on VMware Infrastructure. One of the least understood aspects of vCD is the networking options that you have available to you. The flexibility that is built into vCD [...]
Network Connectivity Needs: So now that we have the basics covered, lets get into the meat of why we started down this path. The hope was to have a network at home and a few machines at a local Service Provider here in Austin TX called Core Nap. The reason I like them is that they [...]
IPv6 Basics IPv6 Addresses: IPv6 Addresses are 128bit as opposed to IPv4 which has 32 bit adddresses. IPv6 address are represented as 8 groups 4 hexadecimal numbers. This is is the first main difference from IPv4 which used 4 groups of decimal numbers to represent the IP address. As an example my home network [...]
Getting on the IPv6 wagon Not really sure that this is a wagon, it is more like freight train that is headed for us at full steam. We have finally reached the point where Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has handed out the last of the old IPv4 address blocks to the Regional Internet Registries [...]