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. This article provides some great “behind the scenes” information on AWS Lambda.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The Pivotal Engineering blog has an article that shows how to use BOSH with the vSphere CPI to automate adding servers to an NSX load balancing pool. This article discusses the virtual machine introspection (VMI) functionality introduced in XenServer 7 while illustrating the value of hypervisor-based security controls.

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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. Is Cisco’s Insieme effort producing a storage product?

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Galido

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - How to Achieve PCI Compliance in AWS? Information Technology Blog. Retailers such as Amazon are relying on technology to capture the information of their clients. AWS is a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and is not necessarily obliged to comply since it rarely handles cardholder information.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

Carl also revisits the three “imperatives” that Pat shared yesterday: Extending virtualization to all of it. Carl brings out Kit Colbert, a principal engineer at VMware (and someone who relatively well-recognized within the virtualization community). IT management giving way to automation. Making hybrid cloud ubiquitous.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. More information is available in this Helm blog post. Virtualization. I hope you’re able to find something useful here! Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. More information is available here. Virtualization. Via William’s post on configstorecli , I also saw this post by Duncan Epping on renaming a virtual switch on vSphere 7.0U2 and higher. Networking. See here for more details.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2013

The real problem is the configuration and management of network policy: stuff like QoS, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, VRFs, firewalls, load balancing, etc. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Networking Virtualization OpenFlow SDN'

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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.” Virtualization.

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 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. Virtualization. Bet you haven’t seen that term used in a while!)

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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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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. Virtualization. Frank Milisi shares some information around stagnation and how to tell if you’re suffering from stagnation.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. DDIO allows PCIe devices to DMA information directly to cache–instead of main memory–where it can then be fetched by a processor core.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. AWS adds local NVMe storage to the M5 instance family; more details here. What I found interesting is that the local NVMe storage is also hardware encrypted. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This is natural in today’s world where data is more valuable than gold because every information is now in the virtual environment and there is nothing that black hat hackers will not do to obtain it. ZIP files are often used to reduce the size of files for easier storage or transmission. What is a Zip bomb?

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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. Virtualization. IPVLAN is a low-latency means of providing IP connectivity to containers. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 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. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful here! Networking. Is there something else I’m missing?

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Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 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. Virtualization. Many of these concepts had direct impacts on the design of Envoy. Servers/Hardware.

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Linux Academy

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Hadoop Quick Start — Hadoop has become a staple technology in the big data industry by enabling the storage and analysis of datasets so big that it would be otherwise impossible with traditional data systems. Students will get hands-on training by installing and configuring containers and thoughtfully selecting a persistent storage strategy.

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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. 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. Welcome to Technology Short Take #56!

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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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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. Virtualization. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Mustafa Akin has an article on Docker’s new overlay networking functionality.

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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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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

” (Stu Miniman of Wikibon has more information here as well.) Rainier” will allow customers to combine PCIe-based SSD storage inside servers into a “virtual SAN” (now there’s an original and not over-used term). Virtualization. Both KVM and QEMU are needed for a full virtualization solution.

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Dataconomy

JULY 26, 2023

ChatGPT login options empower businesses to deploy AI-powered virtual assistants with ease ( Image credit ) What should you do now? Custom Applications: API access enables the development of custom applications, chatbots, virtual assistants, and more, delivering personalized experiences to users.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB). Of course, there are issues with packet-level load balancing and flow-level load balancing, so tradeoffs must be made one way or another. IDF 2014: Virtualizing the Network to Enable SDI.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Helpful and informative content, no question about it. tech preview of virtual networks for Docker. 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. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Casado starts his discussion about how the application has changed—the application is now a combination of servers, clients, load balancers, firewalls, and storage repositories.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

For IaaS technology, the trunk is built of essential cloud core services: compute, networking and storage. Private cloud is a relatively new phenomenon, and for many has really meant advanced virtualization. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

A virtual LAN , aka a VLAN , allows you to have this ability. Switches generally support a variety of load balancing mechanisms, including source-destination MAC addresses, source-destination IP addresses, and sometimes even layer 4 (TCP/UDP) source-destination ports. That’s probably enough information for now.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 20, 2014

” These containers do things like update an external load balancer, or register the presence of the “primary” container in some sort of service discovery mechanism. (In You can use fleetctl help to get more information, or visit the fleet GitHub page. I hope you’ve found this post to be helpful.

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