The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

In the old days, IT departments had developed the tools and processes that they needed in order to deal with building large groups of new servers or handling a planned data center maintenance activity. Kotsovinos points out that a VM is really a collection of interconnected physical subsystems : server, storage, and network.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and.

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Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

On top of that, the tool also allows users to automatically handle networking, storage, logs, alerting, and many other things related to containers. Therefore, this allows users to save on hardware and data center costs. Traffic routing and load balancing. Is deploying Kubernetes a good idea for you?

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Load Balancer Tools Applications Open Source 94

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

The ability to virtualize the network devices such as firewalls, IPS and load balancers also means that these once physical devices that have discrete interfaces can be controlled by software. The second major area is storage automation. The second major area is storage automation.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). Fountainhead.

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Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its similar in concept to how the hypervisor is an enabler (but usually not used as a stand-alone product) of data center management services. can be recovered onto another domain (assuming shared/replicated storage). Fountainhead.

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Virtualization Data Center Storage Network 157

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Part 1: What is Converged Infrastructure, and how it will change data center management. and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Welcome to Technology Short Take #119! Now, on to the content! Fortunately, the diagrams illustrate that there is something substantive behind the headline. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

I have (hopefully) crafted an interesting and varied collection of links for you today, spanning all the major areas of modern data center technology. Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Welcome to Technology Short Take #101! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. If the solution’s goal involves processing and storing data, the architect is constrained to place the pieces that will fulfill those tasks in the proper segments.

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Financial Architecture Resources Security 93

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog. Data Center Facilities Pro.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. The Pivotal Engineering blog has an article that shows how to use BOSH with the vSphere CPI to automate adding servers to an NSX load balancing pool. Welcome to Technology Short Take #78!

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2013

After all, if I can use a controller—there are numerous open source and proprietary controllers out there—to gain programmatic access to controlling individual flows within my data center, why do I need VLANs? Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Load Balancer Network HP Virtualization 106

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

Kit shows tasks in vCenter Server that reflect the automation being done by NSX with regard to automatically creating load balancers, firewall rules, logical switches, etc., Following the list of features in NSX, Carl brings up load balancing, and Kit shows how load balancing works in NSX.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB). Of course, there are issues with packet-level load balancing and flow-level load balancing, so tradeoffs must be made one way or another. IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session.

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Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Rodriguez provides the usual “massive growth” numbers that necessitated Expedient’s relatively recent migration to 10 GbE in their data center. As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 108

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc. And, a single virtualized switching node can present itself as any number of switches and load balancers for both storage and network data. Fountainhead.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. Rainier” will allow customers to combine PCIe-based SSD storage inside servers into a “virtual SAN” (now there’s an original and not over-used term). Welcome to Technology Short Take #27! Networking.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. Planning and managing cabling from a traditional blade solution to the storage and ethernet networks is a usually a major task.

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. It means creating segregated VLAN networks, creating and assigning data and storage switches. Big Data. (6). Fountainhead.

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Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Lew Goettner has a pretty hefty post on CoreOS and Docker on AWS that includes information on CoreOS, user data and cloud-init, AWS and Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), Fleet, Registrator, Nginx, Confd, and Jenkins.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Combined with a strong management layer and hybrid cloud solutions, this becomes the software-defined data center (SDDC). Applications are now truly distributed systems.

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Vmware Applications Network Video 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. This article on putting data in a volume in a Dockerfile is one example. However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear. Servers/Hardware.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Now, on to the content!

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

For IaaS technology, the trunk is built of essential cloud core services: compute, networking and storage. Integration with existing IT infrastructure ­ businesses have significant investments in existing data center infrastructure: load balancers, IDS/IPS, SAN, database infrastructure, etc.

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