Tag: Networking
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Azure OpenAI Private Link and VNet Isolation (Azure Gen AI Series, Part 9)
Private networking for Azure OpenAI, done in the right order: private endpoints, the DNS zones that make them work, when a managed VNet earns its keep, and the On Your Data trap that closes every call.
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Build a Linux Home Lab to Practice Safely (Linux for Beginners, Part 19)
You learn Linux by breaking it and fixing it, which needs a safe place to be reckless. Build a home lab on the laptop you own, use snapshots to undo anything, and practice the whole series.
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How Do You Connect to a Remote Linux Server With SSH? (Linux for Beginners, Part 13)
SSH is how you reach every Linux server you will ever manage. Generate a key, copy it to the server, turn off passwords, and fix the errors that bite.
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Linux Networking From the Command Line: ip, ss, and ping (Linux for Beginners, Part 12)
Ping the address and it answers, but the name will not resolve. This is Linux networking from the command line: ip, ss, ping and dig, what each one proves, and how to make the config stick on Debian and RHEL.
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Virtual networking basics: vSwitch, port groups and VLANs (VMware for Beginners, Part 7)
A plain-English guide to VMware virtual networking for freshers: what a vSwitch, port group, uplink and VLAN really are, how a packet travels from VM to physical switch, and the VLAN and port-group mistakes that break a VM network.
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The Network and Storage Behind Large-Scale AI (GenAI Series, Part 26)
At scale, the network between GPUs is often the real bottleneck. How NVLink, InfiniBand and RoCE, collective operations like all-reduce, and high-throughput storage keep GPUs fed.
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Networking for VMware Private AI Workloads: Segmentation, Ingress and the East-West Path (Private AI Series, Part 26)
Model serving lives or dies on the network nobody designed. Here is how to segment AI namespaces with NSX, expose inference endpoints through the Gateway API and the load balancer, and keep RAG east-west traffic fast and private.
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About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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