Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Different design and architecture considerations apply in each instance. Cormac Hogan walks through setting up the Minio object store on top of VMware vSAN.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Systango has this high-level overview of serverless application architecture along with some pros/cons, use cases, etc. Wil van Antwerpen talks about how to create a macOS Catalina VM using VMware Fusion. Virtualization.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

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.)

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Whatever DNS name you supply for controlPlaneEndpoint —and it should be a DNS name and not an IP address, since in an HA configuration this value should point to a load balancer, and IP addresses assigned to AWS ELBs can change–will also be added as a Subject Alternative Name (SAN) to the API server’s certificate.

Cloud 60

Cloud Load Balancer Vmware Resources 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

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?

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Thomas Graf recently shared how eBPF will eliminate sidecars in service mesh architectures (he also announces the Cilium Service Mesh beta in the same post). Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. Eric Sloof drew my attention to a VMware white paper on paravirtual RDMA devices on vSphere.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Vmware Operating Systems Architecture 94

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.

Vmware 109

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. This permits physically flatter networks.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113