Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. More information is available here. Since taking my new job at Kong, I’ve been spending more time with Envoy, so you’ll see some Envoy-related content showing up in this Technology Short Take. Networking. git undo ?

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Dataconomy

MAY 6, 2024

This scalability is particularly useful for B2B companies with fluctuating workloads, as it allows them to adapt to peak demands without overinvesting in hardware. Resource optimization techniques, such as load balancing and workload management, further contribute to cost efficiency by ensuring resources are used effectively.

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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. Servers/Hardware. More information on the Puppet plugin is available here.) There’s lots of good information here.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Servers/Hardware. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Frank Milisi shares some information around stagnation and how to tell if you’re suffering from stagnation.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This article provides some great “behind the scenes” information on AWS Lambda. Alex Ellis shares some information on how to use kubectl to access your private (Kubernetes) cluster. Most of the information centers on the use of the Pro version of inlets , one of Alex’s project.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Servers/Hardware. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Career/Soft Skills.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Gerald Dykeman shares some information on using Ansible to automate Cisco Meraki. Servers/Hardware. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. It’s really good. Nothing this time around, sorry!

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This installation in the Tech Short Takes series is much shorter than usual, but hopefully I’ve managed to find something that proves to be helpful or informative! Servers/Hardware. As usual, I’ve collected some articles and links from around the Internet pertaining to various data center- and cloud-related topics.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

I saw a demo of the product—it looks quite handy, and provides a pretty fair amount of information to help operators figure out what’s happening “under the covers.” Servers/Hardware. There’s a ton of information in this series! Nothing this time around, but stay tuned for something next time.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. More information is available here. Since taking my new job at Kong, I’ve been spending more time with Envoy, so you’ll see some Envoy-related content showing up in this Technology Short Take. Networking. git undo ?

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

There’s some additional information on the Quantum release on Folsom here. Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. Servers/Hardware. storage enhancements. It starts here.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Mohamad Alhussein shares information on how to add a floating static route to an NSX edge via the NSX REST API. David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Servers/Hardware. I hope you find something useful here! Networking. I haven’t tested it.).

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 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. Servers/Hardware. Many of these concepts had direct impacts on the design of Envoy. Useful nevertheless, though.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. DDIO allows PCIe devices to DMA information directly to cache–instead of main memory–where it can then be fetched by a processor core.

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Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 108

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. IPVLAN is a low-latency means of providing IP connectivity to containers. VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Nothing this time around, sorry!

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

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. Is VMware headed to turning VSAN into a generic storage platform that is no longer tied to vSphere?

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

He describes how to set it up (on both VirtualBox and Digital Ocean) and provides some high-level performance information as well. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Servers/Hardware. The recent release of CentOS 7.2 Kubernetes cheat sheet?

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

According to Martin, the term SDN originally referred to a change in the network architecture to include a) decoupling the distribution model of the control plane from the data plane; and b) generalized rather than fixed function forwarding hardware. What about virtualized load balancers? What about NX-OS, JUNOS, or EOS?

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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

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. ” (Stu Miniman of Wikibon has more information here as well.)

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). ONP fits into this picture by performing VTEP functions in hardware (at line rate). Network virtualization solutions can also copy QoS information into the outer headers as well.). It is hardware switch independent.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 60

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). Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Helpful and informative content, no question about it. 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. Check this out.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The early GPU systems were very vendor specific and mostly consisted of graphic operators implemented in hardware being able to operate on data streams in parallel. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. General Purpose GPU programming.

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