Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. Virtualization. Both KVM and QEMU are needed for a full virtualization solution. has posted a good hypervisor feature comparison document.

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. This is an older article, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before now.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Shahidh Muhammad has a review/comparison of various tools aimed at helping developers build and deploy their apps on Kubernetes.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 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. Courtesy of Corey Quinn, here’s an awesome AWS versus Azure comparison , comic book style. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 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. Steven Acreman shares a brief, high-level comparison of the major Kubernetes ingress solutions. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thats to say it includes I/O virtualization, a converged network fabric (including virtual switches and load balancing - based on std. Labels: Egenera , Infrastructure Orchestration , IT Ops , Unified Computing , Virtualization.

Dell 138

Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The two big recent entrants/announcements were Ciscos Unified Computing System (made this past March) and then HPs BladeSystem Matrix (made in June). Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147