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 ...

In a few circles in the virtualization community, some experts recommend stepping down the number of ports for virtual switches (vSwitch) in VMware vSphere, as well as VI3 installations. This was also ...

Developers of Open vSwitch, the open source networking component for hypervisors, are adding network virtualization capabilities to the code. According to this post in Network Heresy, the developers ...

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 ...

Proxmox has released version 3.2 of its Proxmox Virtual Environment open-source server virtualization platform. Key new features/enhancements include the ability to choose between Simple Protocol for ...

As described on the Apache web site, “Open vSwitch Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. The goal is to build a production quality switch for ...

Following on the heels of a very busy couple of weeks, VMware announced its acquisition of Nicira yesterday. This comes after the virtualization leader bought DynamicOps, then followed that with a ...

VMware said Monday that it will buy Nicira in a deal valued at $1.05 billion in cash. Nicira specializes in open source software for network virtualization. VMware will also assume $210 million in ...