http://blog.egenera.com/2009/05/virtual-switching-whats-it-all-about/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=virtual-switching-whats-it-all-about Delivering Confidence to your Cloud Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:15:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://blog.egenera.com/2009/05/virtual-switching-whats-it-all-about/#comment-239 A Fatoye Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:49:29 +0000 http://blog.egenera.com/?p=117#comment-239 Allowing inter VM traffic to traverse a switch without it being qualified by a firewall is a big security risk . Allowing inter VM traffic to traverse a switch without it being qualified by a firewall is a big security risk .

]]> http://blog.egenera.com/2009/05/virtual-switching-whats-it-all-about/#comment-169 Peter Boothby Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:03:44 +0000 http://blog.egenera.com/?p=117#comment-169 With regard to Cisco's vswitch forcing packets to "traverse the wire" so to speak, some customers mandate this for security reasons (such as to filter traffic through a firewall, McAfee security appliance, etc). Having said that, presumably this could be an option of the vswitch, not a mandated behaviour. With regard to Cisco’s vswitch forcing packets to “traverse the wire” so to speak, some customers mandate this for security reasons (such as to filter traffic through a firewall, McAfee security appliance, etc). Having said that, presumably this could be an option of the vswitch, not a mandated behaviour.

]]> http://blog.egenera.com/2009/05/virtual-switching-whats-it-all-about/#comment-133 JTC Thu, 14 May 2009 03:35:31 +0000 http://blog.egenera.com/?p=117#comment-133 Great post. I am hearing that, despite marketing promises to the contrary, VMWare has effectively made Cisco the exclusive supplier of 3rd party virtual switches in VMWare environments. There are "no resources" at VMware to work with other networking vendors, such as Brocade, Juniper or HP, to allow integration of competing virtual switches to that which will be offered by Cisco. If true, VMWare, who works to ensure independence from hardware vendors, such as parent EMC, would be favoring one hardware supplier over the rest of the market. Does anyone else care about this? Great post. I am hearing that, despite marketing promises to the contrary, VMWare has effectively made Cisco the exclusive supplier of 3rd party virtual switches in VMWare environments. There are “no resources” at VMware to work with other networking vendors, such as Brocade, Juniper or HP, to allow integration of competing virtual switches to that which will be offered by Cisco. If true, VMWare, who works to ensure independence from hardware vendors, such as parent EMC, would be favoring one hardware supplier over the rest of the market. Does anyone else care about this?

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