Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Travis Downs explores a recent Intel microcode update that may have negatively impacted performance. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Intel NUC or SuperMicro E200-8D? Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Brian Ragazzi shares a lesson learned the hard way regarding VVols: place the VSM/VASA on a non-VVol storage location. Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is an interesting deep dive into Intel’s “Ice Lake” Xeon SP architecture. Rudi Martinsen has an article on changing the Avi load balancer license tier (this is in the context of using it with vSphere with Tanzu). And since Kevin didn’t define TDP—shame, shame!—see A severity score of 9.9

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 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. Many of these concepts had direct impacts on the design of Envoy. Servers/Hardware. Useful nevertheless, though. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

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.” ” The speakers are Recep Ozdag, a PME with Intel, and Gershon Schatzberg, a PLM with Wind River Systems. IDF 2013: Future of SDN with the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The first speaker starts out with a review of exactly what a microserver is; Intel sees microservers as a natural evolution from rack-mounted servers to blades to microservers. Key microserver technologies include: Intel Atom C2000 family of processors; Intel Xeon E5 v2 processor family; and Intel Ethernet Switch FM6000 series.

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Load Balancer Intel Network Hardware 61

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

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). QEMU, on the other hand, is needed to emulate everything else that a VM needs: networking, storage, USB, keyboard, mouse, etc. by Qlogic called “Mt.

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