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How to set up DHCP failover on Windows Server

Network World

For those working in Windows environments, there are currently two options for setting up redundant DHCP servers: a failover scenario with a main server paired with another in hot standby; and a load-balancing scenario in which two DHCP servers actively handle client requests. [ To read this article in full, please click here

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Thanks for reading! This is a handy trick.

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VMworld 2013 – Network Virtualization: Moving Beyond the Obvious (My Notes)

Virtualized Greek

Speaker: Martin Casado (VMware Networking CTO). You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. You can save money if you consolidate your Windows & Linux workloads to fewer servers. NSX is basically a network hypervisor similar to how ESXi is a server hypervisor.

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Technology Short Take 123

Scott Lowe

Networking. Eric Sloof mentions the NSX-T load balancing encyclopedia (found here ), which intends to be an authoritative resource to NSX-T load balancing configuration and management. As of January 14, Windows 7 is now End of Life (EOL), as pointed out here by Sergiu Gatlan. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Networking. Matt Oswalt has a great post on the need for networking professionals to learn basic scripting skills—something he (rightfully) distinguishes from programming as a full-time occupation. Further, he follows that up with a post on how automation is more than just configuration management ; it’s about network services.

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Technology Short Take 144

Scott Lowe

Networking. Bozhidar Batsov shares the story of how he left macOS for Linux and ended up on Windows 10 with WSL. Austin Hughley for sticking it out through all the challenges and documenting how to use a Windows gaming PC as a (Linux) Docker host. I hope you find something useful! I learned a couple of tricks from this article.

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Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

Networking. Want to understand kube-proxy , a key part of Kubernetes networking, a bit better? Xavier Avrillier walks readers through using Antrea (a Kubernetes CNI built on top of Open vSwitch—a topic I’ve touched on a time or two) to provide on-premise load balancing in Kubernetes. Start here.

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