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Technology Short Take 95

Scott Lowe

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. IPVLAN is a low-latency means of providing IP connectivity to containers. Nothing this time around, sorry!

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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. 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.

Network 60
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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. I would respond to that by saying OpenStack Neutron wasn’t built to manage a physical network.

Vmware 60
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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

Fountainhead

True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc. However, in the software domain, each still relies on multiple individual products to accomplish tasks such as SW provisioning, HA/availability, VM management, load balancing, etc.

Analysis 147
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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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Technology Short Take #48

Scott Lowe

Tom’s key point is that disaggregating software from hardware—which is kind of a given if you’re buying whitebox networking gear—gives you the (potential) flexibility to repurpose network gear based on the software running on it. Servers/Hardware. Oh, and if you’re looking for a good book on vRealize Operations, look no further.).

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

Fountainhead

Essentially the punchline is this: Weve taken the most commonly-purchased hardware configuration and management tools used by mission-critical IT Ops, and integrated them into a single product with a single GUI that you can install and use in ~ 1 day. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again.

Dell 138