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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Richard Arnold shares some thoughts on VMware Cloud on AWS.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. Virtualization.

Vmware 108

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools.

Linux 74

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 Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. VMware rock star Frank Denneman provides an introduction to Elastic DRS , a feature of VMware Cloud on AWS. related content is due soon.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Cormac Hogan walks through setting up the Minio object store on top of VMware vSAN. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 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 Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. I saw a demo of the product—it looks quite handy, and provides a pretty fair amount of information to help operators figure out what’s happening “under the covers. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

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). tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

Open Source 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. William Lam shares an article on using Ansible to provision Kubernetes on VMware Photon. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #56!

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. This one is a bit older (refers to NSX 6.1 Why, yes, thanks.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Wil van Antwerpen talks about how to create a macOS Catalina VM using VMware Fusion. I’m looking forward to seeing how NaaS evolves. Good stuff!

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60