Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? This is such an invaluable resource. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Servers/Hardware. I’ll keep an eye open for links to include next time around. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Nothing this time (sorry!). Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 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.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Jesse Hu has shared a Helm chart for deploying VMware’s open source Harbor registry. IPVLAN is a low-latency means of providing IP connectivity to containers. Nothing this time around, sorry!

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

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. ACS offers multiple “endpoints,” each of which enables you to use a particular open source container/orchestration tool. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization. Good write-up.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Servers/Hardware. In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you. Reading these early OpenFlow meeting notes (via Brent Salisbury, aka @networkstatic on Twitter) was very fascinating. There’s a lot to digest there (for me, anyway, there is a lot to digest).

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

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! I didn’t think that OpenFlow itself was actually open source (even though there are multiple open source implementations of various OpenFlow products).

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. His earlier post on getting started with OpenFlow and Open vSwitch tutorial lab is also quite good. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). 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.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203