Performance Benchmarking of OpenStack-based VIM and VNFs for NFV Environments

Posted by: November 13, 2018 No Responses
This post focuses on a case study of evaluation of NFV architecture components i.e. VNFs (virtual network functions) and VIM (virtual infrastructure manager) to deliver best-in-class performance to end users and offer a valid approach to active testing.
Performance Benchmarking of OpenStack-based VIM and VNFs for NFV Environments

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How NFV Deployments are Driven by Open Source Projects

Posted by: August 27, 2018 No Responses
Here's how open source is helping advance network optimization to support emerging technologies. There is a growing demand for efficient networks with low latency and high bandwidth to support innovations such as autonomous cars, connected devices, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, and real-time analytics.
How NFV Deployments are Driven by Open Source Projects

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A Look at vCenter Integration with Storage Arrays

Posted by: August 22, 2018 No Responses
Typically, in large scale data center deployment and management, different components of a data center are managed by different system administrators. To get the provisioning or updating of instructions processed, certain iterations have to be followed by the admins. As data center surged towards cloud-managed, a need for having a single console emerged ...
A Look at vCenter Integration with Storage Arrays

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Jayant Ahirrao

Overview of vSphere Web Client Storage Plugin

Posted by: August 13, 2018 No Responses
This article throws light on the advantages of using vSphere web client storage plugin to deal with data center storage. Also, this article talks about the overview on development and testing of vSphere storage plugin and what are prerequisites for development
Overview of vSphere Web Client Storage Plugin

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Virtual Machines or Containers. Which is Better in NFV Infrastructure?

Posted by: August 10, 2018 No Responses
There are a significant amount of advantages of using container-based VNFs rather than hypervisor driven. But if we look at the current stage of NFV progress in NFV technology innovation was not much faster which were anticipated in 2012 due to lack of common guidelines model. But now, 5G networks are started to deploy and tested in
Virtual Machines or Containers. Which is Better in NFV Infrastructure?

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Arpit Arora

vRops(VMware vRealize Operations Manager)

Posted by: May 31, 2018 No Responses
VMware vRealize Operations Manager is a vMware product that delivers the quick operations management with application for storage observable across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. Using policy based automation, operations team automate key processes and improves IT efficiency.
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Jayant Ahirrao

RBAC (Role Based Access Control) for VCP

Posted by: May 30, 2018 No Responses
RBAC is a way to provide an access to the logged in user in vCenter server. The administrator user can create roles and assign privileges to the user for role based access control. In vCenter plugin, we can manage RBAC by creating specific privileges, like read only snapshot dashboard, Limited access to Datastore operations.
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Sagar Abhyankar

Certification for Storage or Virtualization Companies

Posted by: May 10, 2018 No Responses
Certification is a way or a process that helps a company to have and establish credibility of their product in terms of quality and standards set by the certifying authority. There are different types of certifications done and provided by certifying authorities like VMware, Citrix, Microsoft etc. Storage or Virtualization companies who wish to opt ..
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Basics of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) & Challenges

Posted by: March 23, 2018 No Responses
This article is focused on basics of VNFs: what are virtual network functions (VNFs), architecture of virtual network functions (VNFs), what are the basic components (VNFC and VNF Descriptors (VNFD)), challenges with current VNF development and onboarding to NFV environment and how cloud native VNFs can help overcome the challenges.
Basics of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) & Challenges

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Vijay Jawale

Basics of vCenter Plugin Automation

Posted by: March 7, 2018 No Responses
vCenter plugins are additional features of the vCenter web client that aid in the management of vendor specific operations (on Storage, Networking and virtualization). These plugins are developed by third party developers to provide a vendor specific user interface in vCenter. For example, a Storage vendor can extend the vCenter web client interface
Basics of vCenter Plugin Automation
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