Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The term “Cloud Management” is nebulous, but typically refers to a distinct set of tasks related to managing the infrastructure level (IaaS) cloud layers, typically comprised of the physical and virtual infrastructure, as well as the cloud orchestration layer – whether inside a corporation or a Service Provider cloud. Virtualization.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Lots of talk about cloud computing, IT operations, virtualization and more. In fact, Compute fabrics might just be the next big thing after OS virtualization. Virtualizing I/O and converging the transport. Virtual networking.

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Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. This VMware blog post helps explain the link between Puppet and vFabric Application Director, and why organizations may want to use both. Virtualization. Big news in the QEMU world: In the QEMU 1.3

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 115

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Monday, June 29, 2009. HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 30, 2014

I believe people inside of the virtualization community get the advantages of SDN. At least the virtualization community gets the advantages for the virtualized infrastructure. My typical use case is an application that has virtual servers that work in conjunction with physical hosts. Network Virtualization Dell SDN'

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Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

All of Cisco’s major vendors are lined up in support of VMware’s NSX software based virtualization solution. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. VMware already produced a great post on how to leverage NSX in a Cisco UCS environment. Network Cisco NSX VMWare' The list includes a who’s who of Cisco competitors.

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Vmware Load Balancer Hardware HP 78

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Johnson shows a great diagram that reviews all the various types of VM-to-VM communications that can exist in modern data centers: VM-to-VM (on the same host) via the software-based virtual switch (could be speeds of 30 to 40 Gbps in this use case). Intel VT-c actually provides a couple of different ways to work in virtualized environments.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 115

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. One takeaway from this post for me was that the new AWS load balancer controller uses a ton of annotations. Virtualization. Eric Sloof drew my attention to a VMware white paper on paravirtual RDMA devices on vSphere.

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Load Balancer Vmware Operating Systems Security 94

Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” One of my more nerve striking posts and point of views is on the death of virtual desktop infrastructure VDI. Citrix is the king of VDI and has looked to diversify into server virtualization, cloud computing and other data center technologies such as load balancers. Virtualization VDI'

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Vmware Load Balancer Virtualization Windows 84

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 ). Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. Virtualization. Networking.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

Kit Colbert (VMware Principal Architect) & Carl Ecshenbach (VMware COO) Joe Baguley (VMware CTO, EMEA). VMware is talking about the business of IT and how they enable their own business to deliver applications. VMware is of course pushing their virtual SAN solution (vSAN) to provision and control storage.

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Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Brandon Gordon shares how to use VMware Harbor and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network (vCAN) environment for container management. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Virtualization. Vladan Seget shares how to create a VMware ESXi ISO image with the latest patches. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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. This article discusses the virtual machine introspection (VMI) functionality introduced in XenServer 7 while illustrating the value of hypervisor-based security controls.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful! Networking. Career/Soft Skills.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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. Casado starts his discussion about how the application has changed—the application is now a combination of servers, clients, load balancers, firewalls, and storage repositories.

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Vmware Applications Network Video 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Virtualization. Networking.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

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. Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. 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. Virtualization. Never fear, this site has a walkthrough of the Socketplane.io Servers/Hardware.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. William Lam shares an article on using Ansible to provision Kubernetes on VMware Photon. Is VMware headed to turning VSAN into a generic storage platform that is no longer tied to vSphere?

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Patrick Kremer walks through using Postman to implement BGP route filtering with VMware Cloud on AWS. Virtualization. One, the content is useful in and of itself.

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Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Cormac Hogan walks through setting up the Minio object store on top of VMware vSAN. Virtualization. Julia Evans provides a quick overview of Wireshark.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. Massimo Re Ferre has a great article discussing VMware Cloud on AWS versus Azure Stack and breaking down the differences between the two approaches. Virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Virtualization. VMware rock star Frank Denneman provides an introduction to Elastic DRS , a feature of VMware Cloud on AWS. Here’s another one from David: running Juniper vQFX10K on ESXi 6.5.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Ray Budavari—who is an absolutely fantastic NSX resource—has a blog post up on the integration between VMware NSX and vRealize Automation. Virtualization. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Networking.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

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. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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. Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere.

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Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful! Networking. Career/Soft Skills.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

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. Fellow VMware alum Steve Flanders has a write-up on running Kubernetes locally (on a Mac). Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Intel Operating Systems Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

A virtual LAN , aka a VLAN , allows you to have this ability. Switches generally support a variety of load balancing mechanisms, including source-destination MAC addresses, source-destination IP addresses, and sometimes even layer 4 (TCP/UDP) source-destination ports. I welcome all courteous comments, so join in the discussion!

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Network Load Balancer Examples LAN 68

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Virtualization. Wil van Antwerpen talks about how to create a macOS Catalina VM using VMware Fusion. These two articles are interesting (to me) because they combine both network automation and Kubernetes. Good stuff!

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. Virtualization has its own set of problems and we need to have a talk….

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Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

VMware NSX, VMware VSAN, VMware Hybrid Cloud Service, and the expansion of the availability of Cloud Foundry. Carl also revisits the three “imperatives” that Pat shared yesterday: Extending virtualization to all of it. “This is the power of software”, according to Carl. Choice and visibility.

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Vmware Load Balancer Storage Firewall 84