Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

I have (hopefully) crafted an interesting and varied collection of links for you today, spanning all the major areas of modern data center technology. Networking. If you’re a networking pro and didn’t understand most of that last sentence, I’d content that you’ve got some learning to do. Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here’s another collection of links and articles from around the Internet discussing various data center-focused technologies. Networking. The Pivotal Engineering blog has an article that shows how to use BOSH with the vSphere CPI to automate adding servers to an NSX load balancing pool. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Networking. Mircea Ulinic shows readers how to use salt-sproxy to take a different approach to network automation using Salt. Michael Kashin has published a couple of posts on a project of his called NaaS (Network-as-a-Service). David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS.

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

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. Networking. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Networking. Servers/Hardware. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. For Stephen, it was data management. Bet you haven’t seen that term used in a while!) It’s really good.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This is session CLDS006, “Exploring New Intel Xeon Processor E5 Based Platform Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet Network Infrastructures.” The session starts with Rodriguez giving a (thankfully) brief overview of Expedient and then getting into the evolution of networking with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE).

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics. Networking. Servers/Hardware. Now, on to the content! Chip Zoller has a write-up on doing HTTPS ingress with Enterprise PKS. Unfortunately, this appears to be GKE-specific.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Networking. Envoy is a useful project with which to be familiar; it serves as the data plane for the Istio service mesh , and it is the data plane for Heptio’s Contour ingress controller (and, by extension, Heptio’s Gimbal multi-cluster routing solution ). Servers/Hardware.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 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. Networking. Mustafa Akin has an article on Docker’s new overlay networking functionality. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In this post, I’ve collected a few links on various data center technologies, news, events, and trends. Networking. Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #56!

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 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. True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc.

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

There’s a lot of business intelligence and data warehousing that require a lot of horsepower, as well as application/web servers and other applications dedicated to handling massive email volumes. They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. Managed Data Becomes Latisys.

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Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Dataconomy

APRIL 18, 2023

From powering the latest AI and machine learning algorithms to speeding up data processing in scientific research, parallel processing has revolutionized the way we compute and process data. This can be especially useful for applications that involve complex calculations or require real-time data processing.

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Load Balancer Applications Big Data Resources 41

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.

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Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Networking.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

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.” The Intel Open Network Platform (ONP) Switch is the official name for Seacliff Trail, which I talked about last year at IDF 2012. So how does this work?

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Microservers share some common characteristics, such as high integrated platforms (like integrated network) and being designed for high efficiency. He starts the discussion by talking about NFV and SDN, and how these efforts enable agile networks on standard high volume (SHV) servers (such as microservers).

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Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 61

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. Kotsovinos points out that a VM is really a collection of interconnected physical subsystems : server, storage, and network. The arrival of virtualization software changed everything.

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Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This is my usual collection of links, thoughts, rants, and ideas about data center-related technologies. Networking. 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.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Networking. Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series. The NFV discussion seems to be heating up a bit, particularly the “networking” part of NFV. Jason Edelman has posted a self-compiled list of networking projects that are open source ; this is a useful list, so thanks for compiling it Jason!

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. That is, I/O is virtualized, networking is frequently converged (i.e. a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc. e.g. networking, load balancing, etc. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

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

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Last week I attended Gartners annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). Virtual networking. This permits physically flatter networks. Fountainhead.

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Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

According to VMware a mature NSX environment allows you to orchestrate and provision layer 2 and 3 characteristics of the network associated to the application and VM’s but the network elements all the way up to layer 7. This is where partnerships from both hardware vendor and existing software management solutions.

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Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

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. Converged Networking Adapters (e.g. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Monday, December 13, 2010.

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

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. The result is a pooling of physical servers, network resources and storage resources that can be assigned on-demand. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

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 efficiency. (1).

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Graphics processing is one such area with huge computational requirements, but where each of the tasks is relatively small and often a set of operations are performed on data in the form of a pipeline. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units. Â The input data is often organized as a Grid.

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Architecture Programming Web Services Applications 136