In a recent blog post I wrote about my efforts to implement IPv6 in my hosted virtual lab. This is working all fine for my VMs now, but to complete the picture I also wanted to configure IPv6 for the public management / VMkernel interface of the physical ESXi host (Please note: you do not need IPv6 support for the management interface if you just want to use IPv6 with your VMs - these are really two different networks!)
To come to the point: I am currently not able to make my ESXi host use IPv6!
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Showing posts with label ipv6. Show all posts
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Implementing IPv6 in a hosted virtual lab
Did you know that the IPv6 standard was drafted more than 14 years ago, in Dec 1998? Adoption grew very slowly since then, but with today's ongoing exhaustion of IPv4 addresses IPv6 is gaining momentum:
- Almost all important ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and big companies that make business on the Internet already use and support IPv6.
- More an more other companies and institutions look into implementing IPv6 for their Internet-facing services (mainly public web sites).
- All modern Operating Systems have built-in support for IPv6. Many of them (inlcuding Windows 7/8) have it enabled by default.
IPv6 is inescapable. It's here. It's here to stay. It matters. Are you ready?
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