Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

First of all, public cloud container adoption is slowly shifting to Kubernetes. Secondly, there is also a shift towards hybrid- and multi-cloud strategies, enabled by cloud-native technologies such as containers and Kubernetes. Few months after that, Kubernetes was donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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Load Balancer Tools Applications Open Source 94

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Via William’s post on configstorecli , I also saw this post by Duncan Epping on renaming a virtual switch on vSphere 7.0U2 and higher. Networking. Career/Soft Skills.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

CTOvision

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In the private sector, IT can set up a self-provisioning environment that lets development teams move at the required speed without ceding control of enterprise resource management – things such as compute, storage, and random access memory (RAM).

Devops 150

Devops Government Applications Load Balancer 150

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful!

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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

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. Making hybrid cloud ubiquitous. IT management giving way to automation.

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Vmware Load Balancer Storage Firewall 67

Galido

OCTOBER 20, 2018

As such, it is critical that the merchants comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards ( PCI DSS ) to protect the cardholder information using the Amazon Web Services as well as Amazon cloud. AWS is a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and is not necessarily obliged to comply since it rarely handles cardholder information.

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How To Load Balancer Security Cloud 84

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. I saw this headline , and immediately thought it was just “cloud native”-washing (i.e., tagging everything as “cloud native”). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Via William’s post on configstorecli , I also saw this post by Duncan Epping on renaming a virtual switch on vSphere 7.0U2 and higher. Networking. Career/Soft Skills.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Joe’s comment—“the merging of CDNs and cloud continues”—is pretty spot on, in my opinion. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time (sorry!).

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. A few interesting things jumped out at me from the report; one of them was regarding an increase in “siloism” as organizations embraced multiple clouds.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Networking.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. 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.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Brian Ragazzi shares a lesson learned the hard way regarding VVols: place the VSM/VASA on a non-VVol storage location. Virtualization. Matt Behrens shows how.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right?

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

A big reason is the proliferation of micro-services based applications in highly redundant and highly available cloud infrastructures. Add to that a desire for most enterprises to integrate cloud based workloads with legacy on-premises applications, and we have complex hybrid cloud deployments to deal with as the result.

Open Source 60

Open Source Devops Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Virtualization. You may also find this related article (linked within Scott’s post) to be helpful.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and cloud skills further. You will walk through a local installation as well as how to use our Cloud Servers in order to follow along with our demos.

Linux 80

Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Julia Evans provides a quick overview of Wireshark. Mike Foley walks you through configuring TPM 2.0

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time around, sorry!

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Cormac Hogan has recently published three good articles on storage in Kubernetes (the articles are all part of a larger “Kubernetes Storage on vSphere” series).

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC). VM-to-VM (on a different host) over a traditional external switch.

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Good stuff!

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

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. True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. Overview: When to Use Cloud Computing to Replicate. Overview: When to Use Cloud Computing to Replicate. In deploying a cloud computing model, organizations have many options. With flexible “pay-as-you-grow” models, cloud computing can evolve with the needs of your business.

Cloud 250

Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Is VMware headed to turning VSAN into a generic storage platform that is no longer tied to vSphere? Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Latisys. Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys. Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys. “Hybrid” has replaced “cloud” as the hot buzzword, and from a customer perspective, there’s even more confusion around exactly what it means. .

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Rackspace and VMware have a pair of articles discussing their interoperable OpenStack cloud architecture ( here’s the post from Rackspace , and here’s the post from VMware ). Virtualization. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps. Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps. Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. Cloud Management. Cloud Application Management. By: Industry Perspectives July 17th, 2013.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Fountainhead. What is IOV?

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Another good resource is Dan Hersey’s guide to building an SDN-based private cloud in an hour. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. For example, Cody Bunch published this article on running OpenStack Private Cloud on ESXi , and Brent Salisbury (there he is again!) Virtualization. Until the 1.3

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The first concept that Recep discusses is network virtualization. He believes that network virtualization is primarily about decoupling network services from the underlying network infrastructure. The specific terminology involved is that the virtual switches become a VTEP, a virtual tunnel end-point.

Intel 61

Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. When a new server (physical or virtual) is created, much of this infrastructure also has to be provisioned to support it. That is, I/O is virtualized, networking is frequently converged (i.e. are virtualized as well. Fountainhead.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The day 2 keynote kicks off with another Cloud Academy presentation… After the video wraps up, Sanjay Poonen takes the stage. It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Applications are now truly distributed systems.

Vmware 60

Vmware Applications Network Video 60

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. Cloud Computing. (55). Virtualization. (31). Fountainhead.

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Disaster Recovery Load Balancer Dell Data Center 100