Virtualized Greek

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

All of Cisco’s major vendors are lined up in support of VMware’s NSX software based virtualization solution. F5 – Security/Load Balancing. VMware already produced a great post on how to leverage NSX in a Cisco UCS environment. Network Cisco NSX VMWare' The list includes a who’s who of Cisco competitors.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Brandon Gordon shares how to use VMware Harbor and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network (vCAN) environment for container management. Matt Behrens shows how.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

VMware NSX, VMware VSAN, VMware Hybrid Cloud Service, and the expansion of the availability of Cloud Foundry. Carl brings out Kit Colbert, a principal engineer at VMware (and someone who relatively well-recognized within the virtualization community). (I think some other vendors might take issue with that claim.)

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The first is a post on Cilium and F5 load balancer integration , while the second discusses implementing Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd. Patrick Kremer walks through using Postman to implement BGP route filtering with VMware Cloud on AWS. One, the content is useful in and of itself. Here you go.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. Viktor van den Berg writes on deploying NSX load balancers with vRA. Dimitri de Swart has a write-up on LAMP stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet. I hope it proves useful! Networking. Larry Smith Jr. Nothing this time around, sorry!

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Last week I had the opportunity to join John Troyer on the VMware Communities podcast. My purpose, as John put it when he invited me, was to “gently introduce” the community to the idea of network virtualization, which is where I now spend most of my time since joining VMware in early February. emphasis mine).

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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. Adrian Roberts shares a walkthrough of running Photon OS and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network environment. There’s lots of good information here. Check this out.

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Fountainhead

MAY 18, 2009

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing: A for-fee ($0.025/hour/balancer + $0.008/GB transferred) which automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Similarly, Egeneras PAN Manager approach dynamically load-balances networking traffic between newly-created instances of an App.

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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). Eric Sloof has information on how to disable VMware plugins in vCenter Server (the context of the article is security vulnerabilities disclosed in plugins). Career/Soft Skills.

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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. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right?

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Citrix is the king of VDI and has looked to diversify into server virtualization, cloud computing and other data center technologies such as load balancers. It’s ironic until recently one of my main personal use cases for VDI was VMware’s own vSphere Client on my Macbook. I don’t see a practical way around it.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

Kamal Kyrala discusses a method for accessing Kubernetes Services without Ingress, NodePort, or load balancers. VMware rock star Frank Denneman provides an introduction to Elastic DRS , a feature of VMware Cloud on AWS. Here’s another one from David: running Juniper vQFX10K on ESXi 6.5. related content is due soon.

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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. Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere.

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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). Eric Sloof has information on how to disable VMware plugins in vCenter Server (the context of the article is security vulnerabilities disclosed in plugins). Career/Soft Skills.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Looking for a step-by-step install guide for VMware NSX? Ray Budavari—who is an absolutely fantastic NSX resource—has a blog post up on the integration between VMware NSX and vRealize Automation. William Lam breaks down the real value of load balancing your PSC in this in-depth article. Networking. Kubernetes cheat sheet?

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Massimo Re Ferre has a great article discussing VMware Cloud on AWS versus Azure Stack and breaking down the differences between the two approaches. John Kozej walks through how to configure vCenter HA using the NSX load balancer. Ivan Pepelnjak speaks frankly about VMware Cloud on AWS. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Some folks from Nicira (now part of VMware) recently published a blog post discussing the OVSDB IETF draft (see here ). If storage is your thing—especially in VMware environments—I’d recommend having a look at Cormac Hogan’s blog for his series on vSphere 5.1 Networking. storage enhancements. It starts here.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

William Lam shares an article on using Ansible to provision Kubernetes on VMware Photon. Lew Goettner has a pretty hefty post on CoreOS and Docker on AWS that includes information on CoreOS, user data and cloud-init, AWS and Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), Fleet, Registrator, Nginx, Confd, and Jenkins. Docker and Solaris Zones?

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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. Fellow VMware alum Steve Flanders has a write-up on running Kubernetes locally (on a Mac). Servers/Hardware.

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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.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Johnson shows that the E5 processor provides higher throughput at lower CPU usage with VMDq compared to a Xeon 5500 CPU (tests were done using an Intel X520 with VMware ESXi 5.0). as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V–allows VMware customers to use DirectPath I/O to assign VMs directly to a VF, bypassing the hypervisor.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

David Holder walks through removing unused load balancer IP allocations in NSX-T when used with PKS. Wil van Antwerpen talks about how to create a macOS Catalina VM using VMware Fusion. These two articles are interesting (to me) because they combine both network automation and Kubernetes. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Whatever DNS name you supply for controlPlaneEndpoint —and it should be a DNS name and not an IP address, since in an HA configuration this value should point to a load balancer, and IP addresses assigned to AWS ELBs can change–will also be added as a Subject Alternative Name (SAN) to the API server’s certificate.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

The only major things missing from their "Starter Kit" suite they offer are the addition of VMware - not cheap if you choose to purchase it - as well as the addition of a blade (or two) to serve as controllers of the system. The UCS Manager software bundled with the system provides core functionality (see diagram, right).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Baptiste Collard has a post on Kubernetes controllers for AWS load balancers. One takeaway from this post for me was that the new AWS load balancer controller uses a ton of annotations. Eric Sloof drew my attention to a VMware white paper on paravirtual RDMA devices on vSphere. Virtualization.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

Post tags: data-center optimization , dynamic load-balancing , high availability , IaaS , panacea , reduce time to market , reducing costs , scalability , server virtualization , virtual machines , virtual servers , Virtualization , VMs , VMware , workloads. No related posts.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

After showing a few features around identity management, Wasmer announces Project A-Squared, which combines Airwatch and VMware AppVolumes to enable application delivery to Windows 10 systems, even physical systems. which offers a host of new features and new functionality—and talks about customer momentum with VMware NSX.

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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.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 30, 2014

These hosts can be physical servers, firewalls or load balancers. It takes the notion of VMware vApp to another level. The hosts could also be logical devices on a physical switch (NFV). What if you wanted to manage the entire application environment as a single virtual network? First, why.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. This VMware blog post helps explain the link between Puppet and vFabric Application Director, and why organizations may want to use both. Ben Armstrong shows how here. Technology Short Take #25.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The “gotcha” is that these software stacks haven’t been written yet, so the idea of repurposing hardware from switch to firewall to load balancer is still a bit of a unicorn. Here’s a nice article on a multi-action security workflow built using VMware NSX, vShield Endpoint, and vCenter Orchestrator. Servers/Hardware.

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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.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

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. By integrating with VMware's Virtual Center, Xsigo provided a building block. This permits physically flatter networks.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In much the same way that the hypervisor has since been embedded in tools like VMware’s vCenter, IOV can (and has been) embedded with higher-level management tools. IO Virtualization in the IT Management Landscape. How might IO virtualization be used as part of the IT ecosystem in an integrated manner?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Switches generally support a variety of load balancing mechanisms, including source-destination MAC addresses, source-destination IP addresses, and sometimes even layer 4 (TCP/UDP) source-destination ports. Similar Posts: VMware ESX, NIC Teaming, and VLAN Trunking with HP ProCurve. Configuring Inter-VLAN Routing.

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