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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

Normally the hardware space is pretty boring (in fact, I’ve been considering removing it from the Technology Short Take series), but HPE decided to shake things up recently with its Synergy servers and “composable architecture”. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article.

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Technology Short Take 115

Scott Lowe

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Kief Morris, the author behind the O’Reilly Infrastructure as Code book (see my review here) has launched a website that provides infrastructure patterns (re-usable frameworks for creating infrastructure).

Network 60
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Fountainhead: CA's Acquisition of Cassatt - Hindsight & Foresight

Fountainhead

The instantiation of these observations was a product that put almost all of the datacenter on "autopilot" -- Servers, VMs, switches, load-balancers, even server power controllers and power strips. Does it sound like Amazons recent CloudWatch, Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing announcement?

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. But how revolutionary and simplifying are they?

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

Fountainhead

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

Fountainhead

Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), From an architectural perspective, this approach may also be referred to as a compute fabric or Processing Area Network.

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

Fountainhead

The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. Gartner and others agree - this is the next wave in data center architecture. This permits physically flatter networks.