Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). 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. Nothing this time around, sorry!

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? I encourage you to read Keith’s full blog post, but I think the key point he makes is right here: How is this different from Software Defined Networking or SDN? These are all software—does that make them SDN? Are they now SDN?

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Virtualization Network Vmware Load Balancer 134

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. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. I would respond to that by saying OpenStack Neutron wasn’t built to manage a physical network.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Each has a differing technology approach to blade repurposing, and each differs in the type (and source) of management control software. The UCS Manager software bundled with the system provides core functionality (see diagram, right). As sophisticated as it is, in contrast to HP, this software is essentially "1.0"

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Fishbowl , providers of software and services to the restaurant industry, has leveraged Latisys for a hybrid solution that encompasses colocation, managed services, and cloud. Storage and bandwidth is growing accordingly.” The company has a typical software as service setup with a few pieces added in. Modular Data Centers.

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Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

The arrival of virtualization software changed everything. 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.

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Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS002, titled “The Future of Software-Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design.” Recep will cover the hardware side of ONP; Gershon will cover the software side of ONP (referred to as ONS). First, though, Recep takes a few minutes to review some SDN concepts.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

takes the stage to talk about software-defined infrastructure (SDI), which is the vision that Intel has been talking about this week. A traditional SRF architecture can be replicated with COTS hardware using multi-queue NICs and multi-core/multi-socket CPUs. Networking Hardware IDF2014 Intel' A new speaker (Christian?)

Load Balancer 61

Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 61

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

The ability to virtualize the network devices such as firewalls, IPS and load balancers also means that these once physical devices that have discrete interfaces can be controlled by software. Since they can be provisioned and configured by software means that they can now be automated using vCAC and vCD.

Vmware 58

Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

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. However, it’s at least possible with whitebox networking gear.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Fountainhead

OCTOBER 6, 2009

A specific angle I want to address here is that of infrastructure automation ; that is, the dynamic manipulation of physical resources (virtualized or not) such as I/O, networking, load balancing, and storage connections - Sometimes referred to as "Infrastructure 2.0". a Fabric), and network switches, load balancers, etc.

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Load Balancer Virtualization Data Center Network 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. Existing physical IO but with address hardware-based mapping/virtualization (e.g. However, to be clear, IOV is not a software layer as-is the hypervisor). HP VirtualConnect ).

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.

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Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Essentially the punchline is this: Weve taken the most commonly-purchased hardware configuration and management tools used by mission-critical IT Ops, and integrated them into a single product with a single GUI that you can install and use in ~ 1 day. If you dont believe Dell hardware is ready for the Data Center, then think again.

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Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

other than managing your software stack). Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. That last bullet, the thing about hardware components, is also something to drill down into. The result: Buying, integrating and maintaining less software. See diagram below.

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Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Modern CPUs strongly favor lower latency of operations with clock cycles in the nanoseconds and we have built general purpose software architectures that can exploit these low latencies very well. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Architecture Programming Web Services Applications 136