Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc. However, in the software domain, each still relies on multiple individual products to accomplish tasks such as SW provisioning, HA/availability, VM management, load balancing, etc.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

One of the topics we discussed on the podcast was the relationship between SDN and network virtualization, which sparked this blog post by Keith Townsend, one of the attendees. I encourage you to read Keith’s full blog post, but I think the key point he makes is right here: How is this different from Software Defined Networking or SDN?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. I needed to fill in some other knowledge gaps first.)

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. Subscribe to this blog. Blog Archive. Favorite Blogs. Burton Group blog. Egenera Blogs. Newer Post.

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Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

Information Technology Blog - - Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World - Information Technology Blog. For a start, it provides easy optimization of infrastructural resources since it uses hardware more effectively. Therefore, this allows users to save on hardware and data center costs. Scalability and modularity.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. That last bullet, the thing about hardware components, is also something to drill down into. And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. Subscribe to this blog.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Thanks for reading!

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC). VMDq can provide a hardware assist when the hypervisor softswitch is involved, or you can use hypervisor bypass and SR-IOV to attach VMs directly to VFs (virtual functions). Note that there are trade-offs as a result.)

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Servers/Hardware. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Joel Knight shares how he’s tried to blog more in 2017. Nothing this time (sorry!). Virtualization.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities. blog comments powered by Disqus. he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Servers/Hardware. I was very glad to see this blog post about the financial future of the GnuPG project. Via the Kubernetes blog, Rory McCune of Aqua Security provides some guidelines for securing admission controllers.

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Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), Subscribe to this blog. Blog Archive. Favorite Blogs. Burton Group blog. Egenera Blogs. Newer Post.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units. Also more details can be found on the AWS Developer blog. Contact Info.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). I found this series of posts to be helpful when I was working on configuring LACP with Open vSwitch (I hope to have a blog post on that up soon). Servers/Hardware. Networking. storage enhancements.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

My personal and professional life has kept me busy over the last couple of months, so things have been quiet here on the blog. Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Eric Sloof mentions the NSX-T load balancing encyclopedia (found here ), which intends to be an authoritative resource to NSX-T load balancing configuration and management. Servers/Hardware. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! Time to get patching, folks!

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. I read a couple of Cilium-related blog posts recently that may be useful. Servers/Hardware. Andrei Warkentin provides an update regarding ESXi-Arm (ESXi on ARM hardware).

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Mircea Ulinic has a nice article describing the combination of NAPALM and Salt for network automation.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. This blog post provides a few scant details about the new project, called “USB to SDDC”. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Servers/Hardware. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. I’d stay tuned to Mike’s blog; he’s indicated that some TPM 2.0-related

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Ray Budavari—who is an absolutely fantastic NSX resource—has a blog post up on the integration between VMware NSX and vRealize Automation. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. This one is a bit older (refers to NSX 6.1

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Looks like PKS, the joint Kubernetes effort from VMware and Pivotal, has gone GA (see this VMware blog post ) with initial support for vSphere and GCP. The Project Atomic blog shares how to use OCI image registries with Buildah.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 18, 2023

Parallel processing can be achieved through shared memory, distributed memory, or hybrid parallel processing, which are discussed in more detail later in this blog. To address scalability problems, parallel processing systems use load balancing algorithms to distribute tasks evenly among processors and ensure optimal performance.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Here’s a fresh new collection of links and articles from the around the web to propel myself back into blogging. David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Servers/Hardware. I hope you find something useful here! Networking. I haven’t tested it.).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Ádám Sándor has launched a blog series ( chapter 1 is available now) that mirrors Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes the Hard Way tutorial on GitHub. Dusty Mabe has a multi-part blog series on Atomic Host. John Kozej walks through how to configure vCenter HA using the NSX load balancer.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Craig Matsumoto of SDxCentral recently published a piece on NFV performance ; that article was based largely on a blog post by Martin Taylor of Metaswitch found here. 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.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Servers/Hardware. Sean Collins has an article on building a cheap, compact, and multinode DevStack environment for a home lab that lays out some server hardware decisions and the tools he uses to manage them. Carl Baldwin has a post describing how subnet pools work and why they are of benefit in OpenStack environments.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

This low level software allowed multiple applications to run on the same physical hardware but believe that they had the box all to themselves. Click here to get automatic updates when The Accidental Successful CIO Blog is updated. The arrival of virtualization software changed everything. Learn what you need to know to do the job.

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