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VMworld 2013 – Network Virtualization: Moving Beyond the Obvious (My Notes)

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For example, the server virtualization value proposition is simple. You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. Once server virtualization is in the door more of the operational advantages and efficiencies appear. Network virtualization allows for more powerful automation.

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Technology Short Take 176

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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.

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Technology Short Take #27

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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). Virtualization. Both KVM and QEMU are needed for a full virtualization solution. Need to compact a virtual hard disk in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012?

Vmware 115
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VDI is dying so what now?

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” 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' Tipping Point.

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CLDS006: Exploring New Xeon E5 Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet

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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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Technology Short Take 144

Scott Lowe

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. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL.

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Technology Short Take 123

Scott Lowe

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. dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020.