Open vSwitch (OVS) today moved from an open source project hosted at VMware to a Linux Foundation project. “There’s been this perception that it was VMware run,” says Justin Pettit, senior staff at ...

With vSphere and VI3, VMware virtualization environments can hit some very lofty consolidation ratios. Consolidation ratios of 30, 40 or 50 or more VMs per host are not at all out of reach today with ...

Only the much larger VMWare also enjoys this type of distribution benefit -- and while the scarcity of vSwitches is a problem (3 or 6 via vSwitches controlled by VMWare & Nicira) -- the bigger ...

Designed for use with HP FlexFabric 5900AF switch, HP Virtual Switch 5900v provides powerful SDN alternative to anemic VMware vSwitch Network architectures and SDNs are becoming increasingly crucial ...