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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Brian Ragazzi shares a lesson learned the hard way regarding VVols: place the VSM/VASA on a non-VVol storage location. Normally you’d see this sort of thing talking about Linux, but this one uses Windows throughout.).

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VMworld 2013 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

vCloud Application Director deploys complex application topologies in an automated fashion, and includes integration with tools like Puppet and Chef. Kit shows tasks in vCenter Server that reflect the automation being done by NSX with regard to automatically creating load balancers, firewall rules, logical switches, etc.,

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. What about virtualized load balancers? Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Is one a subset of the other?

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure Part 2.

Fountainhead

It highlights, albeit in a stylized fashion, just how many point-products an average-sized IT department is using. And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. It means creating segregated VLAN networks, creating and assigning data and storage switches.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The different stages were then load balanced across the available units. Programming the GPU evolved in a similar fashion; it started with the early APIs being mainly pass-through to the operations programmed in hardware. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.