GalSagie A blog about network virtualization and cloud

NFV Acceleration (Part 3)

In part 1 of this series i wrote about user space drivers and in particular about DPDK, in part 2 i wrote about pass throught technologies (standard/SR-IOV) and HW offloading to the NIC. In this post i am going to describe commercial offerings that combine all the above techniques and more.

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Introduction to ETCD - Cluster Configuration Sync

I have recently started being more and more interested and involved in distributed systems implementation, and in particular services cluster.

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NFV Acceleration (Part 2)

In a previous post of this series i wrote about accelarating virtual functions using networking user space drivers, Intel’s DPDK is one main example but others exists just as well.

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Topology Visibility in Virtualized Environments

In a previous post i mentioned that there are many new challenges in SDN to achieve sufficient operations and management visibility.

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NFV Acceleration (Part 1)

NFV is certainly not a term needed to be explained in this point of time, feel free to google it and understand what it is if you never heard about it.

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