CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

Solarflare adapters are deployed in a wide range of use cases, including software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NoSQL databases, caching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming and storage networks.

Software 151

Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

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. Here’s hoping that I found something useful for you! Networking. Steve Sloka talks about new features in the Contour 1.1 Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Since taking my new job at Kong, I’ve been spending more time with Envoy, so you’ll see some Envoy-related content showing up in this Technology Short Take. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Galido

APRIL 27, 2020

On top of that, the tool also allows users to automatically handle networking, storage, logs, alerting, and many other things related to containers. Traffic routing and load balancing. Kubernetes also comes with built-in load balancers to distribute the load across multiple pods.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Tools Applications Open Source 94

Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). Balancing these.

Applications 214

Applications Cloud Data Center Load Balancer 214

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

Kit shows tasks in vCenter Server that reflect the automation being done by NSX with regard to automatically creating load balancers, firewall rules, logical switches, etc., Following the list of features in NSX, Carl brings up load balancing, and Kit shows how load balancing works in NSX.

Vmware 67

Vmware Load Balancer Storage Firewall 67

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. Abdullah Abdullah shares some thoughts on design decisions regarding NSX VXLAN control plane replication modes. Servers/Hardware.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

AWS Elastic Beanstalk automatically creates the AWS resources and application stack needed to run the application, freeing developers from worrying about server capacity, load balancing, scaling their application, and version control. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

Load Balancer 115

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Development 115

CTOvision

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In the private sector, IT can set up a self-provisioning environment that lets development teams move at the required speed without ceding control of enterprise resource management – things such as compute, storage, and random access memory (RAM).

Devops 150

Devops Government Applications Load Balancer 150

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

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. Normally you’d see this sort of thing talking about Linux, but this one uses Windows throughout.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. In terms of numbers of requirements, the load on the business unit assessments is significantly reduced. Learn more about Verizon’s PCI assessments here. [1]

Financial 101

Financial Architecture Resources Security 101

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

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). Blogger Mal shares some “privacy surprises” from well-known password manager 1Password. Jason Hall has some information on OCI base image annotations. Virtualization.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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. Cormac Hogan has a brief update on storage options for containers on VMware. Check out Aaron Patten’s article on vRA + SPBM (storage policy-based management) with VVols.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

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. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? What happens to submarine cables when there are massive events, like a volcanic eruption?

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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. Why is this in the networking section?

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The series starts with part 0 (preparation), and continues with part 1 (mostly about rpm-ostree ), part 2 (container storage), part 3 (rebase, upgrade, and rollback), part 4 (package layering and experimental features), and part 5 (containerized and non-containerized applications). Dusty Mabe has a multi-part blog series on Atomic Host.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

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? storage enhancements. It starts here. Technology Short Take #25. Technology Short Take #27.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 17, 2018

Check out these articles talking about IPVS-based in-cluster load balancing , CoreDNS , dynamic kubelet configuration , and resizing persistent volumes in Kubernetes. The CNCF has a 4-part series taking a deeper look at some of the feature changes in Kubernetes 1.11. Virtualization.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. Since taking my new job at Kong, I’ve been spending more time with Envoy, so you’ll see some Envoy-related content showing up in this Technology Short Take. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The “TL;DR” for those who are interested is that this solution bypasses the normal iptables layer involved in most Kubernetes implementations to load balance traffic directly to Pods in the cluster. Fortunately, the diagrams illustrate that there is something substantive behind the headline. Servers/Hardware.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Vmware Applications 60

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. However, it seems to me that this isn’t the real problem.

Load Balancer 108

Load Balancer Network HP Virtualization 108

Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

ZIP files are often used to reduce the size of files for easier storage or transmission. Then, when there is not enough space for data storage, happens especially in a company that does not do data archiving , the systems become unstable and slow down at first and then completely crash.

Firewall 41

Firewall Applications Examples Load Balancer 41

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. After the Free Usage Tier, you can run Amazon RDS for SQL Server under two different licensing models - "License Included" and Microsoft License Mobility.

Development 116

Development Windows Disaster Recovery Licensing 116

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

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). Blogger Mal shares some “privacy surprises” from well-known password manager 1Password. Jason Hall has some information on OCI base image annotations. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The AWS cloud provider for Kubernetes enables a couple of key integration points for Kubernetes running on AWS; namely, dynamic provisioning of Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes and dynamic provisioning/configuration of Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) for exposing Kubernetes Service objects.

Cloud 61

Cloud Storage Resources Policies 61

Galido

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The Amazon VPC allows the merchant to establish a private network for all the CHD storage which is critical in complying with the PCI DSS Segmentation. How Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Helps. How Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Boosts Data Protection. This is known as TLS handshake.

How To 84

How To Load Balancer Security Cloud 84

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Cormac Hogan has recently published three good articles on storage in Kubernetes (the articles are all part of a larger “Kubernetes Storage on vSphere” series). Is there something else I’m missing?

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

News is using a wide variety of AWS services: EC2, S3, VPC, Direct Connect, Route 53, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, RDS, WorkSpaces, Storage Gateway. Elastic Load Balancing left unused. Elastic Block Storage volumes left unattached. So what are some common cloud governance issues? No tagging. No right-sizing.

Government 60

Government Cloud Agile Load Balancer 60

Linux Academy

MARCH 28, 2019

High speed low latency networks now allow us to add these nodes anywhere in a cloud infrastructure and configure them under existing load balancers. Once federated storage solutions other than the Prometheus time series database may be used to record metrics over longer periods of time.

Open Source 60

Open Source Devops Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. IPVLAN is a low-latency means of providing IP connectivity to containers. VPCs, or Virtual Private Clouds, are Amazon’s software-defined networking mechanism for workloads running on AWS.). Cormac Hogan has a first look at AWS Greengrass on vSphere.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

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.

Linux 80

Linux Big Data Course Devops 80

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.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Ask some CTO’s about how their product scales and they’ll whip out a logical diagram showing you redundant networks, redundant firewalls, load balancers, clustered application servers, redundant databases, and SAN storage.

Load Balancer 100

Load Balancer Agile Software Development Big Data 100

Linux Academy

JUNE 17, 2019

Load Balancing Google Compute Engine Instances. Applying Signed URLs to Cloud Storage Objects. Applying Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy To Restrict Application Access. Initiating Google Cloud VPC Network Peering. Redacting Sensitive Text with Google Cloud DLP. Handling Encryption Keys with Cloud KMS.

Linux 60

Linux Course Load Balancer Google 60

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. It looks like there will be a follow-up to this article as well, so you may want to check back on Ajay’s site. Julia Evans provides a quick overview of Wireshark.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

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. It is, however, very well-suited to workloads that need predictable performance and that work with lots of small packets (firewalls, load balancers, other network devices).

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

Phil Windley

AUGUST 3, 2017

Picos run on an engine that provides the support they need for Internet services, persistent storage, and identity. The pico-based system he references, SquareTag, is no longer in active development, but we're replacing it with a new system called Manifold that reflects the community of things ideas I reference above. The New Pico Engine.

Engineering 40

Engineering Load Balancer Internet Programming 40