Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Dimitri de Swart has a write-up on LAMP stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 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 90

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. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Operating Systems/Applications. Why is this in the networking section? Career/Soft Skills.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 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. Fellow VMware alum Steve Flanders has a write-up on running Kubernetes locally (on a Mac).

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 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

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Ray Budavari—who is an absolutely fantastic NSX resource—has a blog post up on the integration between VMware NSX and vRealize Automation. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Massimo Re Ferre has a great article discussing VMware Cloud on AWS versus Azure Stack and breaking down the differences between the two approaches. Operating Systems/Applications. John Kozej walks through how to configure vCenter HA using the NSX load balancer. RIP Solaris. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 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 Docker and Solaris Zones? Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you. Networking. It starts here.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

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.).

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 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. No related posts.

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. Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

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. Here’s a nice article on a multi-action security workflow built using VMware NSX, vShield Endpoint, and vCenter Orchestrator.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60