Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Last week I had the opportunity to join John Troyer on the VMware Communities podcast. My purpose, as John put it when he invited me, was to “gently introduce” the community to the idea of network virtualization, which is where I now spend most of my time since joining VMware in early February. emphasis mine).

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Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

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 ). This is an awesome overview of the OpenStack Folsom architecture , courtesy of Ken Pepple. In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Although I believe David’s post focuses on Enterprise PKS, it may also apply to NSX-T when integrating with “generic” Kubernetes as well. (I I’m looking forward to seeing how NaaS evolves. Cool stuff.

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. The only major things missing from their "Starter Kit" suite they offer are the addition of VMware - not cheap if you choose to purchase it - as well as the addition of a blade (or two) to serve as controllers of the system.

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Using 1 GbE would have required too many ports, too many cables, and too many switches; 10 GbE offered Expedient a 23% reduction in cables and ports, a 14% reduction in infrastructure costs, and offered a significant bandwidth improvement (compared to the previous 1 GbE architecture). Note that there are trade-offs as a result.)

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

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. I might have mentioned this before, but Ken Pepple’s OpenStack Folsom architecture post is just awesome. Feel free to share something in the comments! Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

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. Enterprise Efficiency. Enterprise Efficiency.

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Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113