Brocade Virtual Symposium – Soft Core and Hard Edges (Sponsored)

29 May 2012 by Leave a Comment

The fourth discussion in the Tech Field Day/Packet Pushers Virtual Symposium with Brocade, this video focuses on Ivan Pepelnjak’s conception of “hard cores and soft edges” in networking design. Joining Chip Copper, Principal Engineer at Brocade, are Greg Ferro, Ivan Pepelnjak, Derick Winkworth, Tom Hollingsworth, and Tony Bourke.

Ivan Pepelnjak leads a discussion of virtual machine networking and tenant isolation. The panel discusses the following issues:

  • Virtual “soft switch” capability
  • Cisco UCS VM-FEX and Arista EOS VM Tracer
  • Brocade Automated Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP)
  • Security implications of flexible network automation
  • Does a virtual chassis concept address the challenges of dynamic virtual infrastructure?
  • Convergence of networking and storage
  • Long*distance virtual machine motion

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About Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.