Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Servers/Hardware. jq is probably one of my favorite CLI tools.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Back in April of this year, Patrick Ogenstad announced Netrasp , a Go package for writing network automation tooling in Go. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

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. Handy tool! Anyone else spent any quality time with this tool and have some feedback?

Load Balancer 60

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. Virtualization. Unfortunately, this appears to be GKE-specific. Nothing this time around.

Load Balancer 60

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. Steve also shares what he thinks are some must-have tools for Kubernetes. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Red Hat discusses efforts around containerizing open-vm-tools to better support the use of Atomic OS instances running on VMware infrastructure. Virtualization. Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Jason Edelman of Network2Code also has a post on intent-based network automation with Ansible , in which he breaks down the idea of intent-based networking (IBN) and how tools such as Ansible or NAPALM can make it possible. ” If your shop is into OpenStack, you might want to give this tool a look. Servers/Hardware.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Brian Graf provides an update on using VMware Tools 10 with this “must-read” article on updating to VMware Tools 10. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 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. Virtualization. I’m looking forward to seeing how NaaS evolves.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 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. Virtualization. Good write-up.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. Virtualization has its own set of problems and we need to have a talk….

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Fountainhead. Monday, December 13, 2010.

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

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). The first concept that Recep discusses is network virtualization. He believes that network virtualization is primarily about decoupling network services from the underlying network infrastructure.

Intel 61

Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Numerous IT management tools are available today for use with the cloud, but the rubber meets the road at the level of the application because this is what a user will actually “use.” Managing the cloud stack itself is typically done through the vendor-provided UIs, and augmented by 3rd party tools. Virtualization. Convergence.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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.

Dell 138

Dell Data Center Virtualization Cloud 138

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Operational complexity – coordinating tool use, procedures, interdependencies and fault-tracking. Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. 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.), skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100