Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. 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. 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

This tool automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications on a cluster of servers (virtual or bare metal). 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.

Load Balancer 94

Load Balancer Tools Applications Open Source 94

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. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful! Networking. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 90

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

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.

Vmware 67

Vmware Load Balancer Storage Firewall 67

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

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. Virtualization. Here’s hoping that I found something useful for you! Networking. I’m so far behind. Career/Soft Skills.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 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. Virtualization. It starts here.

Storage 92

Storage Vmware Linux Virtualization 92

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. Virtualization. Need to customize the virtual networks that VMware Fusion offers?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. 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. I hope this collection of links has something useful for you! Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 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. Networking Virtualization OpenFlow SDN'

Load Balancer 108

Load Balancer Network HP Virtualization 108

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. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful! Networking. Career/Soft Skills.

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

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). Additionally, how one would deploy their application into these environments can vary greatly.

Devops 150

Devops Government Applications Load Balancer 150

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. 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

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. J has launched a Patreon page to help drive funding to enable him to create new storage-related content. If storage is your thing, have a look and see if this is something that makes sense for you.

Storage 60

Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 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. Virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Some of it is still too advanced for me right now.

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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. VM-to-VM (on the same host) via a hardware-based virtual switch in an SR-IOV network interface card (NIC). VM-to-VM (on a different host) over a traditional external switch.

Intel 109

Intel Virtualization Data Center Network 109

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.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Storage Intel 60

Galido

OCTOBER 20, 2018

How Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Boosts Data Protection. 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. This is known as TLS handshake. Is AWS PCI DSS Compliant.

How To 84

How To Load Balancer Security Cloud 84

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. Virtualization. Fortunately, the diagrams illustrate that there is something substantive behind the headline.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 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. Virtualization. Ed Haletky documents the approach he uses to produce segregated virtual-in-virtual test environments that live within his production environment.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Virtualization Authentication Tools 60

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. Virtualization. The CNCF has a 4-part series taking a deeper look at some of the feature changes in Kubernetes 1.11.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Storage Network Linux 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. Automated Kubernetes Deployments.

Open Source 60

Open Source Devops Linux Cloud 60

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?

Firewall 41

Firewall Applications Examples Load Balancer 41

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Load Balancer Network Open Source 60

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). Virtualization. Good stuff!

Network 60

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.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Theyre also both teaming with virtualization providers, as well as hoping for success in cloud computing. True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc.

Analysis 147

Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

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 16, 2015

Open Virtual Network (OVN) is really ramping up and getting lots of attention, which I personally think is absolutely well-deserved. Is VMware headed to turning VSAN into a generic storage platform that is no longer tied to vSphere? Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #56! I hope you find something useful here.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Load Balancer Linux 60

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….

Virtualization 100

Virtualization Load Balancer Data Center Vmware 100

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Cloud Computing » Storage. With a well-planned deployment, and a good infrastructure, companies can efficiently load-balance their IT environment between multiple active, cloud-based, sites. So, if one site should go down – users would transparently be balanced to the next nearest or most available data center. .

Cloud 250

Cloud Disaster Recovery Data Center Backup 250

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Virtualization. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. The recent release of CentOS 7.2 has caused some issues building Docker containers; see this article for a fix. Thanks to Shannon McFarland for posting this on Twitter.). Kubernetes cheat sheet? Why, yes, thanks.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IO Virtualization: The “Hypervisor” for Your Infrastructure. More than ever in 2010, IO Virtualization (IOV) has been showing-up in products, written about, spoken about. IO Virtualization. Fountainhead. Monday, December 13, 2010.

Virtualization 157

Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Storage and bandwidth is growing accordingly.” They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. I wasn’t sure cloud load balancing would be right, for example, but they showed us the numbers. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure.

Cloud 189

Cloud Data Data Center Firewall 189

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

Data Center 203

Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

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.

Intel 61

Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 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). Virtualization. QEMU, on the other hand, is needed to emulate everything else that a VM needs: networking, storage, USB, keyboard, mouse, etc.

Vmware 109

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 109