Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Until the 1.3 The QEMU 1.3

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time around, sorry! Check this out.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Continuing on that Envoy theme, you may find this article by Matt Klein—one of the primary authors of Envoy—helpful in understanding some of the concepts behind modern load balancing and proxying. Servers/Hardware. Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

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. Operating Systems/Applications. IPVLAN is a low-latency means of providing IP connectivity to containers.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

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.

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Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

The two big recent entrants/announcements were Ciscos Unified Computing System (made this past March) and then HPs BladeSystem Matrix (made in June). The UCS Manager software bundled with the system provides core functionality (see diagram, right). Still, these systems are - believe it or not - a major step forward in IT management.

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147