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. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time (sorry!). Ben Evans has a four-part series (so far) on vSAN.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. 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. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D?

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Servers/Hardware. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The “TL;DR” for those who are interested is that this solution bypasses the normal iptables layer involved in most Kubernetes implementations to load balance traffic directly to Pods in the cluster. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Unfortunately, this appears to be GKE-specific.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 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. Operating Systems/Applications. This page has a list of ways to exploit (or hack) macOS.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Servers/Hardware. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s really good. Nothing this time around, sorry! Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). I never found the root cause, but we did find a workaround; however, along the way, someone shared this article with me.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I recently used a variation of the information in this article to keep OTR private keys in sync among a group of OS X-based systems. J has launched a Patreon page to help drive funding to enable him to create new storage-related content. RIP Solaris. Virtualization.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Servers/Hardware. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. Operating Systems/Applications. I haven’t tested it.).

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important step in our commitment to increase the flexibility for AWS customers to use the choice of operating system, programming language, development tools and database software that meet their application requirements.

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Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 116

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Is Cisco’s Insieme effort producing a storage product? storage enhancements.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. 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.).

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. In case you missed it, Docker 1.9 It’s a whirlwind of technologies.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 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. Operating Systems/Applications. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Want to run Docker Swarm on Azure?

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

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. Things like what operating system an application used no longer mattered – you could mix and match to your heart’s content. What All Of This Means For You. No related posts.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. by Qlogic called “Mt.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

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). Some of these services naturally should run on the top-of-rack (ToR) switch, like load balancing or security services.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Matt Oswalt recently wrapped up his 3-part “DevOps for Networking” series.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60