All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. We introduced Amazon RDS for Oracle last year , and based on the demand from our Windows customers, are introducing Amazon RDS for SQL Server today. pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities. Comments ().

Development 115

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 115

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

I asked the question earlier how does NSX bring value to the enterprise. You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. The network industry has focused on protocols for a long time because of the need interoperate hardware devices between vendors.

Virtualization 68

Virtualization Network Load Balancer Vmware 68

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Ben Armstrong shows you how to use PowerShell to give your Windows server a proper fully-qualified domain name. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC). VMDq can provide a hardware assist when the hypervisor softswitch is involved, or you can use hypervisor bypass and SR-IOV to attach VMs directly to VFs (virtual functions). Note that there are trade-offs as a result.)

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

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 problem is that often the VM management tools aren’t able to scale up to the size of enterprise operations. The arrival of virtualization software changed everything. Problem: Silos.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

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. I needed to fill in some other knowledge gaps first.) Until the 1.3

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109