Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). Balancing these.

Applications 214

Applications Cloud Data Center Load Balancer 214

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc. However, in the software domain, each still relies on multiple individual products to accomplish tasks such as SW provisioning, HA/availability, VM management, load balancing, etc.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Gal and Liran Schour from IBM are slated to do a talk on this at the OVS conference this week.). Lew Goettner has a pretty hefty post on CoreOS and Docker on AWS that includes information on CoreOS, user data and cloud-init, AWS and Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), Fleet, Registrator, Nginx, Confd, and Jenkins.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. He postulates that, as more and more aspects of the data center fall under virtualization (network virtualization, storage virtualization, etc.)

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60