Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. 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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Rodriguez provides the usual “massive growth” numbers that necessitated Expedient’s relatively recent migration to 10 GbE in their data center. As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory.

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Servers/Hardware. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Both are implicitly or explicitly taking aim at each other as they chase the enterprise data center market. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1). Data Center Design. Green Data Center blog.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Servers/Hardware. Sean Collins has an article on building a cheap, compact, and multinode DevStack environment for a home lab that lays out some server hardware decisions and the tools he uses to manage them.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Networking.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

One cloud computing solution is to deploy the platform as a means for disaster recovery, business continuity, and extending the data center. Whether it is redundant hardware or a private hot-site, keeping an environment up and running 99.99% (insert more 9’s here) of the time is a tough job. Uptime and resiliency.

Cloud 250

Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. Managed Data Becomes Latisys. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

This low level software allowed multiple applications to run on the same physical hardware but believe that they had the box all to themselves. The arrival of virtualization in the data center is going to screw all of this up. The arrival of virtualization software changed everything. Permalink | 2 comments | Add to del.icio.us.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs. Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB). IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session. Networking Hardware IDF2014 Intel'

Load Balancer 61

Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 61

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

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc. And, a single virtualized switching node can present itself as any number of switches and load balancers for both storage and network data. Fountainhead.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Servers/Hardware. Is this the beginning of the data center fractal edge ? Networking. Virtualization.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

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. The question is if IT has the ability to implement and support a physical data center let alone a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).

Vmware 58

Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Fountainhead.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Its similar in concept to how the hypervisor is an enabler (but usually not used as a stand-alone product) of data center management services. Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. What is IOV?

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

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. However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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. Big Data. (6). Data Center Design.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Part 1: What is Converged Infrastructure, and how it will change data center management. A converged infrastructure approach offers an elegant, simple-to-manage approach to data center infrastructure administration. Fountainhead.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100