Hardware, Load Balancer and Operating Systems

Edgecore unveils high-performance 400G spine switch for data centers

Network World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Edgecore Networks is taking the wraps off its latest data center networking hardware, the 400G-optimized DCS511 spine switch. This new hardware offering aims to address the increasing demands of modern computing infrastructures, particularly in the realms of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Terabits per second.

Data Center

Data Center Load Balancer Open Source Data

SUSE Edge upgrade targets Kubernetes and Linux at the edge

Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

“So this allows the telco operators to use whatever scripting tool that they have already today that speaks CAPI to manage all of the machines at the edge for standard of telco workloads.” Another area of bare metal improvements is focused on network load balancing. SUSE Edge 3.1 also benefits from the MetalLB technology.

Linux

Linux Load Balancer Open Source Network

Cisco pumps up data center networking with AI, large workloads in mind

Network World

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Nexus 9000 portfolio supports critical AI/ML networking features such as dynamic load balancing, which distributes traffic across multiple paths or links that have the same cost in terms of routing metrics, Gandluru wrote in a blog post about the new Nexus 9000 series switches.

Data Center

Data Center Network Load Balancer Data

Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

This is the industry’s first universal kernel bypass (UKB) solution which includes three techniques for kernel bypass: a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) sockets-based API (Application Program Interface), TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Direct and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software

Software Software Data Center Hardware

Technology Short Take 176

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!

Linux

Linux Vmware Load Balancer Malware

Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

This is the industry’s first universal kernel bypass (UKB) solution which includes three techniques for kernel bypass: a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) sockets-based API (Application Program Interface), TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Direct and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software

Software Software Data Center Hardware

Kyndryl bolsters its Bridge infrastructure services

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Bridge has matured to the point where customers can think of it as a digital operating system that can be personalized, if you will, for each business to integrate our services, manage their data, and gather insights or patterns they need to operate at a highly efficient way,” Shagoury said.

Fractional CTO

Fractional CTO Cloud Applications Load Balancer

Technology Short Take 123

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! Operating Systems/Applications.

Load Balancer

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud

Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

Open Source

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture

Technology Short Take 141

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. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Networking.

Vmware

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple

Technology Short Take 151

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. What do you think microsegmentation means ? Ru Singh provides a review of his M1-based MacBook Air.

Load Balancer

Load Balancer Linux Intel Cloud

Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

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. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing

Technology Short Take 88

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time (sorry!). Ben Evans has a four-part series (so far) on vSAN.

Load Balancer

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source

Technology Short Take 144

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me.

Linux

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization

Technology Short Take #78

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time around, sorry! Check this out.

Vmware

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer

Technology Short Take 106

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. This page has a list of ways to exploit (or hack) macOS.

Load Balancer

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware

Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

Open Source

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture

Technology Short Take 119

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The “TL;DR” for those who are interested is that this solution bypasses the normal iptables layer involved in most Kubernetes implementations to load balance traffic directly to Pods in the cluster. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Unfortunately, this appears to be GKE-specific.

Load Balancer

Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications

Technology Short Take 101

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Why is this in the networking section?

Load Balancer

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel

IDF 2013: Future of SDN with the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). ONP fits into this picture by performing VTEP functions in hardware (at line rate). Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services.

Intel

Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization

Technology Short Take 144

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me.

Linux

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization

Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. As an aside, I do find it fascinating that new storage startups often emerge with support for Linux first, then add other operating systems afterward.).

Vmware

Vmware Linux Storage Network

Technology Short Take #27

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Until the 1.3 The QEMU 1.3

Vmware

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware

Technology Short Take 103

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s really good. Nothing this time around, sorry!

Load Balancer

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux

Technology Short Take 95

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. IPVLAN is a low-latency means of providing IP connectivity to containers. VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.).

Vmware

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source

Technology Short Take 115

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Servers/Hardware. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. Operating Systems/Applications. I haven’t tested it.).

Network

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications

Technology Short Take #87

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. John Kozej walks through how to configure vCenter HA using the NSX load balancer. Nothing this time around, but stay tuned for something next time. Chris Binnie walks you through the process of using user namespaces to help secure your Docker hosts and containers.

Storage

Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements.

Development

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing

Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

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. Operating Systems/Applications. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Want to run Docker Swarm on Azure?

Vmware

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware

Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series.

Open Source

Open Source Vmware Network IBM

Technology Short Take #56

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. Operating Systems/Applications. In case you missed it, Docker 1.9 It’s a whirlwind of technologies.

Vmware

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux

Technology Short Take #25

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you. Reading these early OpenFlow meeting notes (via Brent Salisbury, aka @networkstatic on Twitter) was very fascinating. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Storage

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization

CIOs Need To Realize That Virtualization Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

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. Things like what operating system an application used no longer mattered – you could mix and match to your heart’s content. No related posts.

Virtualization

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

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