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. Operating Systems/Applications. JJ Asghar takes a look at using VMware Photon OS as the backend Docker host OS for use with test-kitchen.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Keybase discusses some challenges with encrypted chat applications and how their architecture avoids some of those challenges. This past week Microsoft and VMware announced Azure VMware Solutions, which allows customers to run the VMware software stack on Azure (an arrangement similar in nature to VMware Cloud on AWS, as I understand it).

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

This article by Brian Caffey on deploying the same web application on ECS Fargate using three different IaC tools (CDK, Terraform, and Pulumi) has some really great and useful information in it. Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. to version 8.0.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

VMware recently released an updated to PowerCLI (version 6.5.3), and with it comes a set of cmdlets that provide low-level access to the NSX-T REST API. Lior Kamrat has a multi-part series on an architecture that blends Mesosphere DC/OS, Azure, Docker, and VMware vSphere. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? What will happen when you combine GPUs and persistent storage?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Ajeet Singh Raina has a write-up on running Docker Datacenter on VMware vSphere. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Jake Bennett discusses strengthening your AWS security posture by protecting application credentials and rotating EC2 and IAM keys. Sirish Raghuram has some thoughts on the VMware-AWS announcement (about VMware Cloud on AWS) compared to the “Omni” announcement at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Adrian Roberts shares a walkthrough of running Photon OS and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network environment.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Apparently due to the way the integration between Antrea and VMware NSX was designed, it’s possible for “stale” Antrea-enabled clusters (clusters that once existed but are no longer present/valid) to show up in the NSX UI. Operating Systems/Applications. Curious about what a JWT is? Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good source. Any thoughts?

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It will be available next year, and will come in a “native AWS” flavor as well as a VMware flavor (see William Lam’s post for more details on the VMware flavor). Operating Systems/Applications. Kevin Fleming discusses the idea of using a systemd-nspawn container to help with system recovery.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I adopted OS X as my operating system of choice in 2003 because I wanted a stable, powerful, UNIX-based operating system. Don’t be surprised, then, to see me start talking more about switching away from OS X, and exploring applications and tools that work on other platforms. Apple and VMware…or Xen?

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I’ve got a wide range of topics for you this time around—eBPF, Falco, Snort, Kyverno, etcd, VMware Code Stream, and more. Kaizhe Huang examines Falco versus AuditD from a host intrusion detection system (HIDS) perspective. Eclypsium discusses ways of protecting system firmware storage. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Here’s a pair of articles ( one here and one here ) that describe the port connections required between the various components in a VMware NSX deployment. These posts are a bit slanted toware VMware vSphere environments, but very detailed, very thorough, and very useful. William Lam has a quick look at ContainerX on VMware vSphere.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Operating Systems/Applications. I recently saw an article stating that VMware is going to use Minio as the object storage platform for Kubernetes, but the evidence presented in the article is anything but convincing.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Richard Boswell has a series going on VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) and resource schedulers that is (so far) pretty good. Servers/Hardware. or higher).

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here. VMware has launched a SIG for Kubernetes on VMware. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently GA’d vSphere 6.7, Feedback is always welcome! Networking. Your mileage may vary, of course. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Operating Systems/Applications. For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. The world of virtualization—nay, more than just virtualization—will be forever changed with the announcement of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware. Programming.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization?

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications. You may have heard of eBPF, the Linux technology that is reshaping Linux applications (and in some ways reshaping Linux itself). VMware finally splits VMware Tools out from vSphere.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

I really appreciate Jay’s focus on what’s beneficial to the users of OpenStack: the cloud operators, the end users/consumers, and the developers building applications on top of OpenStack. Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Mircea’s right—bugs will happen in all software (VMware NSX has had its share, for example), but the key is in how it’s handled. Doug Youd of Cumulus has an excellent 3-part series on the use of LACP in VMware vSphere environments. Operating Systems/Applications. Want to keep your PowerShell Core up to date?

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

VMware recently released a reference design guide for NSX-T; see here for more details. Dimitri de Swart has a write-up on LAMP stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet. Looks like PKS, the joint Kubernetes effort from VMware and Pivotal, has gone GA (see this VMware blog post ) with initial support for vSphere and GCP.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. Operating Systems/Applications. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Operating Systems/Applications. This post reminds me that I need to write up the procedure I followed to get the Prometheus Operator scraping metrics from a TLS-secured etcd cluster bootstrapped using kubeadm.). Dave Taylor provides s ome tips for configuring VMware Fusion for Linux usage. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

Here’s a decent two-part series about running Vyatta on VMware Workstation ( part 1 and part 2 ). Operating Systems/Applications. Rawlinson Rivera starts to address a lack of available information about Virsto in the first of a series of posts on VMware Virsto. Here’s one idea. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Kevin Houston discusses workload acceleration options—specifically, storage acceleration via NVMe or PCIe SSDs—for blade servers. He also has a good article outlining some storage options for various blade server platforms that might be helpful as well. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Cossack Labs recently released Acra , a database encryption suite designed to protect applications against data leaks by providing strong encryption. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently announced the open sourcing of some software development kits (SDKs) for the new REST APIs in vSphere 6.5.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

Here’s a set of 15 principles for designing and deploying scalable applications on Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools. Steven Bright shows how to deploy Salt minions automatically using VMware Tools.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 8, 2018

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. His points are spot-on: making the control plane highly available isn’t going to improve the availability or scalability of your applications. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

One of the interesting announcements to come out of the recent VMworld 2018 conference in Las Vegas is also described in this post on the AWS News Blog : Amazon RDS on VMware. I suppose it’s a win-win deal for both VMware and AWS (else why bother?), Operating Systems/Applications. Time will tell.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 8, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #43, another episode in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, and thoughts from around the web, focusing on data center technologies like networking, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing. Another series on VMware NSX has popped up, this time from Jon Langemak. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is a fascinating (to me, at least) paper on the implications of non-volatile storage on today’s data centers (and data center hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

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Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Kit Colbert shares 5 predictions for cloud-native applications in 2017. Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Ben Thompson has an in-depth analysis of how Google is challenging AWS. Way to go, Daniel!

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. I recently used a variation of the information in this article to keep OTR private keys in sync among a group of OS X-based systems.

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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 ). 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. Operating Systems/Applications.

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