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IoT – Everything and everyone smartly connected

August 23, 20172 Comments

The subject Internet of Things (IoT) is intriguing to me, both from a technical and personal point-of-view. IoT to me is where all current cloud initiatives and network virtualization innovations come…

VXLAN and Multiple Receive Threads explained

August 16, 20171 Comment

The (Dynamic) NetQueue feature in ESXi, which is enabled by default if the physical NIC (pNIC) supports it, allows incoming network packets to be distributed over different queues. Each queue…

Using CPU limits in vCloud for NFV

July 27, 2017No Comments

Looking at the VMware vCloud for NFV proposition, you will notice that vCloud Director (vCD) is one of the options for the Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) layer based on the…

Virtual Machine Tx threads explained

July 18, 20171 Comment

Looking at the ESXi VMkernel network path you will notice it consists of Netpoll threads and Tx threads. Netpoll threads receive traffic from an ESXi host perspective where Tx threads…

Host Resources Deep Dive Released!

June 21, 2017No Comments

The time has finally come that we published our (e)book. It is available via Amazon using the following links: Paperback Kindle (ebook) Amazon US Amazon US Amazon DE Amazon DE…

Datanauts: Diving Deep Into vSphere Host Resources

May 12, 2017No Comments

Last week Frank and I had the pleasure and honor to join Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks in their awesome Datanauts podcast! We discussed our upcoming book and the rationale behind it.…