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

Virtualized Greek

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. If it’s happening at the application level now then why continue to add functionality at the hardware layer?

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

According to Martin, the term SDN originally referred to a change in the network architecture to include a) decoupling the distribution model of the control plane from the data plane; and b) generalized rather than fixed function forwarding hardware. What about virtualized load balancers? What about NX-OS, JUNOS, or EOS?

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Technology Short Take #25

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you. OpenStack Summit 2013: Building HA OpenStack with Puppet in 20 Minutes. Reading these early OpenFlow meeting notes (via Brent Salisbury, aka @networkstatic on Twitter) was very fascinating.

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IDF 2013: Future of SDN with the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design

Scott Lowe

Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). ONP fits into this picture by performing VTEP functions in hardware (at line rate). Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

By: Bill Kleyman July 23rd, 2013. Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. So, if one site should go down – users would transparently be balanced to the next nearest or most available data center. . ” [.].

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Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys » Data.

Data Center Knowledge

By: Jason Verge July 23rd, 2013. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. July 2013 (144). June 2013 (164). May 2013 (165). April 2013 (179).

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc. However, in the software domain, each still relies on multiple individual products to accomplish tasks such as SW provisioning, HA/availability, VM management, load balancing, etc.

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