All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. The software that powers todayâ??s of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

Development 116

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 116

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

The process is very similar to other demo’s I’ve seen from other Cloud Management vendors. The ability to virtualize the network devices such as firewalls, IPS and load balancers also means that these once physical devices that have discrete interfaces can be controlled by software. NSX, NSX and more NSX.

Vmware 58

Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

takes the stage to talk about software-defined infrastructure (SDI), which is the vision that Intel has been talking about this week. A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs. COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.

Load Balancer 61

Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 61

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). First, though, Recep takes a few minutes to review some SDN concepts.

Intel 61

Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Although automation of software (such as provisioning & manipulation of VMs/applications) usually captures attention, remember that there is a whole set of physical datacenter infrastructure layers that IT Ops has to deal with as well. Fountainhead.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Cool stuff.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Nothing this time around, sorry!

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Lots of talk about cloud computing, IT operations, virtualization and more. This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. Cloud Computing. (55). Tuesday, December 8, 2009.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? I encourage you to read Keith’s full blog post, but I think the key point he makes is right here: How is this different from Software Defined Networking or SDN? These are all software—does that make them SDN? Are they now SDN?

Virtualization 134

Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. However, to be clear, IOV is not a software layer as-is the hypervisor). However, to be clear, IOV is not a software layer as-is the hypervisor). Fountainhead.

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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.

Dell 138

Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. other than managing your software stack). Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. That last bullet, the thing about hardware components, is also something to drill down into.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

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. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Virtualization. Good write-up.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Networking. Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Johnson shows a great diagram that reviews all the various types of VM-to-VM communications that can exist in modern data centers: VM-to-VM (on the same host) via the software-based virtual switch (could be speeds of 30 to 40 Gbps in this use case). In this case, the switching is done in hardware in the SR-IOV NIC.

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. Each has a differing technology approach to blade repurposing, and each differs in the type (and source) of management control software.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), Cloud Computing. (55). Fountainhead.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Expanding the Cloud - Adding the Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances. Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

Architecture 136

Architecture Programming Web Services Applications 136