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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN. emphasis mine).

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Virtualization.

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Why Kubernetes Is So Popular in the Tech World

Galido

This tool automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications on a cluster of servers (virtual or bare metal). This is especially true when compared to making a virtual machine with its own OS for each application. Great industry support and community. Traffic routing and load balancing.

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Virtualization.

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Is Cisco fighting a losing battle over SDN?

Virtualized Greek

However, if you were to go by the response to the number of vendors supporting the NSX ecosystem you’d think the entire industry is going against this hardware first religion. All of Cisco’s major vendors are lined up in support of VMware’s NSX software based virtualization solution. F5 – Security/Load Balancing.

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When Using Cloud Computing to Replicate is the Right Idea

Data Center Knowledge

With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites. So, if one site should go down – users would transparently be balanced to the next nearest or most available data center. . Industry Perspectives. Networking.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. When a new server (physical or virtual) is created, much of this infrastructure also has to be provisioned to support it. That is, I/O is virtualized, networking is frequently converged (i.e. a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.