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Technology Short Take 123

Scott Lowe

Eric Sloof mentions the NSX-T load balancing encyclopedia (found here ), which intends to be an authoritative resource to NSX-T load balancing configuration and management. Servers/Hardware. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! Time to get patching, folks!

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Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

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? Thanks for reading!

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Technology Short Take 95

Scott Lowe

has a nice write-up on Cisco XR stemming from a presentation at NFD 17. Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Servers/Hardware. Nevertheless, I have persevered in order to deliver you this list of links and articles. I hope it proves useful! Networking. Larry Smith Jr.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

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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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season. 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.

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CLDS006: Exploring New Xeon E5 Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet

Scott Lowe

Next the presentation shifts focus a little bit to discuss FCoE. VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC). In this case, the switching is done in hardware in the SR-IOV NIC. Rodriguez goes over the reasons that Expedient is evaluating FCoE for their data center.

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Technology Short Take #25

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware. Given my past interest in OpenBSD and my present interest in KVM on Linux, this might be something I’ll be trying myself soon. In any case, this article by Frank Denneman on Storage DRS load balancing frequency might be useful to you. That’s pretty handy.

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