Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Servers/Hardware. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. I’m looking forward to seeing how NaaS evolves. Good stuff!

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Rodriguez provides the usual “massive growth” numbers that necessitated Expedient’s relatively recent migration to 10 GbE in their data center. As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory.

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

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? Or virtualized firewalls?

Virtualization 134

Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. 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

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. 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. Uptime and resiliency.

Cloud 250

Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). Recep talks about how the predominant architecture for network virtualization involves the use of overlay networks created and managed at the edge by virtual switches in the hypervisors. So how does this work?

Intel 61

Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Once again this comes back to Intel’s rack-scale architecture work.) A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs. Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB).

Load Balancer 61

Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 61

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Servers/Hardware. I might have mentioned this before, but Ken Pepple’s OpenStack Folsom architecture post is just awesome.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Building general purpose architectures has always been hard; there are often so many conflicting requirements that you cannot derive an architecture that will serve all, so we have often ended up focusing on one side of the requirements that allow you to serve that area really well. From CPU to GPU.

Architecture 136

Architecture Programming Web Services Applications 136

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc. the automation SW automatically manipulates addresses and ports) this architecture will necessarily modify the security hierarchy, single-point-of-failure risks, etc. Fountainhead.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Part 1: What is Converged Infrastructure, and how it will change data center management. A converged infrastructure approach offers an elegant, simple-to-manage approach to data center infrastructure administration. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113