22 Mar 2016
By Yendis Lambert

Azure IP address 168.63.129.16

Microsoft, ,
Have you ever wondered what this IP address is?  Well 168.63.129.16 is a virtual public IP address that is used to facilitate a communication channel to internal platform resources for the bring-your-own IP Virtual Network scenario.  Because the Azure platform allow customers to define any private or customer address space, this resource must be a unique public IP address.  It cannot be a private IP address as the address cannot be a duplicate of address space the customer defines.  This virtual public IP address facilitates the following things: Enables the VM Agent to communicating with the platform to signal it…
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11 Feb 2015
By Yendis Lambert

Leveraging NIC Technology in VMware vSphere

VMware, ,
VMware vSphere® is constantly evolving to add many new features and functionality to incorporate the latest technology, and one area of this trend is network performance. vSphere supports a variety of network interface controllers (NICs). Each NICs primary job is to deliver packets in and out of the host; however, NICs also include technology that vSphere can leverage to perform network transfer faster and more efficiently. This technical white paper examines scenarios of virtual machines sending and receiving network traffic across different hosts and how vSphere can take advantage of the NIC technology to improve network performance in a vSphere…
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