Author: Muhammad Marakkoottathil

NSX-T 3.0 Design Considerations for VRF-Lite

VRF-Lite is the latest capability added part of the NSX-T 3.0 release. Through this blog post “NSX-T 3.0 design consideration for VRF-lite”, let’s explore the benefits of VRF lite and its considerations from design and implementation perspectives. VRF-Lite Advantages Server virtualization admins usually struggle with the core networking concepts like VRF lite. Therefore, I recommend

NSX-T Based DMZ Rack Design for Banking

Financial organizations are facing tremendous shifts in their business models, regulatory requirements, and the competitive landscape. Undoubtedly, it is always a key priority for CIO and CTO is to reduce the infrastructure CAPEX and OPEX. In this “NSX-T based DMZ Rack Design for Banking” blog, let’s look at how NSX improves DMZ environment for banking

Nutanix solutions from an architectural perspective

Nutanix delivers enterprise private cloud solutions on top of its flagship hyper-converged infrastructure. Furthermore, the solutions bring the scale, resilience, and economic benefits to the enterprise. With this blog, I am trying to uncover Nutanix solutions from an architectural perspective  As a first step, the following blocks are developed to group the various solution into

VMware NSX-T 3.0 Key features

VMware NSX-T 3.0 brings whole new key features.  Furthermore, this is a major release of VMware’s  SDN platform that offers virtual networking, security, load balancing, and visibility all in a single code base. Also below diagram represents the key architectural components and features offered by NSX-T 3.0 With NSX-T 3.0 now you have the capability to manage the entire

Network vs Application Centric

Network vs application-centric is the key design topic whenever you plan for Cisco’s ACI. However, most of the adopters are not very clear about the use cases. The following questions were asked. Does ACI automatically capture the application details? also, does it identifies my applications? Can ACI automate the application connectivity configurations! What is the

Data center Network Monitoring – Cloud, SDN, NFV- evolving use-cases!

There are a good number of NPMD vendors talking about data center network monitoring and diagnostic use cases. However, with big-data, IoT, rapidly changing application landscape and evolving security threats are demanding highly powerful network visibility engines in modern data centers.  And with the advent of programmable fabrics, it is very interesting to see how