Scott Lowe

JULY 13, 2018

Bernd Malmqvist talks about Avi Networks’ software-defined load balancing solution, including providing an overview of how to use Vagrant to test it yourself. Cormac Hogan walks through setting up the Minio object store on top of VMware vSAN. Julia Evans provides a quick overview of Wireshark. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Johnson shows a great diagram that reviews all the various types of VM-to-VM communications that can exist in modern data centers: VM-to-VM (on the same host) via the software-based virtual switch (could be speeds of 30 to 40 Gbps in this use case). Johnson next transitions into a discussion of VF failover using NIC teaming software.

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Each has a differing technology approach to blade repurposing, and each differs in the type (and source) of management control software. The UCS Manager software bundled with the system provides core functionality (see diagram, right). As sophisticated as it is, in contrast to HP, this software is essentially "1.0"

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. Wil van Antwerpen talks about how to create a macOS Catalina VM using VMware Fusion.

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

The arrival of virtualization software changed everything. This low level software allowed multiple applications to run on the same physical hardware but believe that they had the box all to themselves. In the past, IT departments used to set up a new server for each new application that they wanted to deploy. No related posts.

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

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. Combined with a strong management layer and hybrid cloud solutions, this becomes the software-defined data center (SDDC). What about iOS and Android devices?

Vmware 60

Vmware Applications Network Video 60

Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

Kit Colbert (VMware Principal Architect) & Carl Ecshenbach (VMware COO) Joe Baguley (VMware CTO, EMEA). VMware is talking about the business of IT and how they enable their own business to deliver applications. VMware is of course pushing their virtual SAN solution (vSAN) to provision and control storage.

Vmware 58

Vmware Load Balancer Data Center Virtualization 58

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 30, 2014

While Dell isn’t exactly the biggest player in networking, it’s still relevant to note how important their announcement of a bare metal switch is to Software Defined Networking (SDN). I’ve long struggled with the idea of using VXLAN to extend a software based overlay to individual ports on a physical switch. First, why.

Dell 83

Dell Load Balancer Virtualization Network 83

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Tom’s key point is that disaggregating software from hardware—which is kind of a given if you’re buying whitebox networking gear—gives you the (potential) flexibility to repurpose network gear based on the software running on it. The big VMware launch event was on February 2, and among the announcements was vSphere 6.0.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

If you’re interested in learning more about OpenFlow and software-defined networking but need to do this on a shoestring budget in your home lab, a number of guides have been written to help out. Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

This is very much analogous to how OS virtualization componentizes and abstracts OS and application software stacks. The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.

Data Center 113

Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

You should think of IOV using the following analogy: The way in which the hypervisor abstracts software in the application domain, IOV abstracts IO and networking in the infrastructure domain. However, to be clear, IOV is not a software layer as-is the hypervisor). IOV is agnostic to the workload!

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157