This post co-authored by Bruce Davie, Martin Casado, and Brad Hedlund VMware has long been known as the company that changed computing by virtualizing servers. At Nicira, we set out to disrupt networking just as VMware disrupted computing, by virtualizing networks. The analogy between network virtualization and server virtualization can be a helpful one, but it is still only an analogy, and analogies can only take you so far. The point of this post is to dig a bit deeper into network virtualization – what it is, what it means for the industry, and how VMware, in the aftermath of the Nicira acquisition, plans to change networking. Just as server virtualization introduces the abstraction of the virtual machine, network virtualization introduces the virtual network abstraction....
