All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. We introduced Amazon RDS for Oracle last year , and based on the demand from our Windows customers, are introducing Amazon RDS for SQL Server today. pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities. Comments ().

Development 94

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 94

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! This is a handy trick.

Vmware 113

Vmware Linux Load Balancer Malware 113

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. Need to compact a virtual hard disk in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012?

Vmware 115

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. The network industry has focused on protocols for a long time because of the need interoperate hardware devices between vendors. The Second are is the higher level layers such as load balancing.

Virtualization 68

Virtualization Network Load Balancer Vmware 68

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.)

Intel 115

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 115

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!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. Austin Hughley for sticking it out through all the challenges and documenting how to use a Windows gaming PC as a (Linux) Docker host. I thought it was useful, so now I’m sharing it with you. Kudos to J.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90