Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. More information on the Puppet plugin is available here.) There’s lots of good information here. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. More information is available here. Virtualization. Networking. See here for more details.

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Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

This installation in the Tech Short Takes series is much shorter than usual, but hopefully I’ve managed to find something that proves to be helpful or informative! The Kubernetes project recently underwent a security audit; more information on the audit, along with links to the findings and other details, is available here.

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Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. This graphical summary of the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is pretty handy. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Nothing this time (sorry!).

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. John Gruber’s post on “Secure Intent” on Apple devices was, for me at least, an informative read. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Gerald Dykeman shares some information on using Ansible to automate Cisco Meraki. Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

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Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Good stuff!

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

There’s some additional information on the Quantum release on Folsom here. Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Speaking of Buildah…here’s a post from Tomáš Tome?ek

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. I saw a demo of the product—it looks quite handy, and provides a pretty fair amount of information to help operators figure out what’s happening “under the covers.”

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Here’s another one from David: running Juniper vQFX10K on ESXi 6.5. Personally, I’d love to see the KVM option explained.). Career/Soft Skills.

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Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Mohamad Alhussein shares information on how to add a floating static route to an NSX edge via the NSX REST API. David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful here!

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 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. Operating Systems/Applications. See the official Docker blog post for more information (and rest assured I’ll have some blog posts up on some of this stuff as well). Virtualization.

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Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

March Study Group Course: Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it? Students will explore how containers work, how they compare with virtual machines and Docker containers, and how they handle application isolation.

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Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

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….

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Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

He describes how to set it up (on both VirtualBox and Digital Ocean) and provides some high-level performance information as well. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Want to run Docker Swarm on Azure?

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

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. The specific terminology involved is that the virtual switches become a VTEP, a virtual tunnel end-point.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. ” (Stu Miniman of Wikibon has more information here as well.) Virtualization. by Qlogic called “Mt. Apparently, “Mt.

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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). Helpful and informative content, no question about it. tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60