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July 8, 2022

Migrating to Google Compute Platform – Fit Assessment

In another collaboration with The CTOAdvisor, we have spent some hands-on time with the Google cloud and the process to migrate on-premises applications to the Google cloud. Here on Build Day Live, we will be documenting some of the procedures for that migration. On the CTO Advisor site, we will have more architectural and executive-oriented content around the migration, and you will probably find some of my thoughts on my blog at Demitasse. This is the first post, where we will use the Google Fit tool to examine the CTO Advisor infrastructure and identify possible migration strategies for applications residing on the existing VMware platform that we wish to move to the Google Cloud Platform. If you would prefer to watch a video of this process, you can find that here on the Build Day Live channel. The Fit tool documentation can be found here (Google mFit Documentation) and was […]

December 29, 2020

VMware SDWAN – Policies and Secure Private Networks

Why would you want a Software-Defined WAN? The most straightforward answer is that you wish to a single place to control your WAN by policy, rather than managing dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of devices one at a time through their separate configuration files. The second part is replacing or supplementing expensive private network connections with Internet connectivity and centrally managed VPNs. The VMware SDWAN solution (formerly VeloCloud) delivers policy-based management and cloud VPNs at scale. Rohan Naggi ran me through the basic principles of SDWAN in the first video of the Build Day TV series about the VMware solution. There are three parts of the solution: physical routers deployed to each site (SD-WAN Edge), a cloud management console (SD-WAN Orchestrator), and a cloud-based network forwarding plane (SD-WAN Gateway). One of the SDWAN solution’s key objectives is to enable branch office, home office, and edge deployment and operation without ever […]

December 27, 2020

SD-WAN Intrinsic Security

In this 5th episode, Rohan Naggi walks us through setting up the Built-in firewall, a Firewall VNF, a centralized firewall, and integration with a Gateway for setting up business policies.

November 14, 2020

Application Performance of VMWare SD-WAN

Now your VMware SD-WAN is setup, and we’ve tested connections, it’s time to figure out what happens when failover occurs. Rohan will simulate some traffic bandwidth, and show how the SD-WAN Internet will continue to perform.

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About Build Day Live!

Build Day Live! focuses on showing people how your product will fit in their data center. It is – in so many words – an alternate source material and marketing product. We do Day 1 Installation into an infrastructure, and go over the pros and cons with your leading engineers, support, and more.

Build Day Live! also gets a deeper insight into the company, finding out why this product exists, and how it can benefit the company 5, 10, or more years down the road.