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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

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unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). Balancing these.

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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. Kief Morris, the author behind the O’Reilly Infrastructure as Code book (see my review here) has launched a website that provides infrastructure patterns (re-usable frameworks for creating infrastructure).

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Technology Short Take 95

Scott Lowe

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. 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. Alen Komljen provides an introductory overview of service meshes in Kubernetes.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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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.

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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. I’m really glad to see that Wiley/Sybex worked with the authors to do a second edition of this massively helpful book. The recent release of CentOS 7.2 has caused some issues building Docker containers; see this article for a fix.

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Fountainhead: Differing Target Uses for IT Automation Types

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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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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II

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So, using the diagram from last week, the functionality maps as follows: PAN Builder: VM server management Physical server management Software (P & V) provisioning I/O virtualization & management IP load balancing Network virtualization & management Storage connection management Infrastructure provisioning Device (e.g.