Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2016

For over 30 years, New Horizons has provided more than 30 million students with industry-leading technical training that delivers the most relevant and intuitive computer courses and certifications. New Horizon also has the largest “Guaranteed-to-Run” course schedule in the world.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

This NCTA program was designed to provide IT professionals with a strong foundation in cloud technologies, and overall cloud architecture and management of cloud infrastructure, as well as a solid technical background in modern web services deployment and administration.

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Web Services Architecture Cloud Programming 70

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

It sounds like Ivan favors scale-out architectures, not scale-up architectures (which are typically what is seen in centralized control plane deployments). Looking for more VMware NSX content? Anthony Burke has started a new series focusing on VMware NSX in pure vSphere environments. Need more details on PFS? Stephen?

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. After all can’t you use SDDC architecture to build a private cloud? It is comprised of different building blocks such as software-defined storage (STS), software-defined networking (SDN), compute virtualization and related services.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 25, 2014

The CPU, Storage and in some cases network are collapsing into tightly integrated platforms. Examples include Nutanix on the hardware side and VMware VSAN or EMC ScaleIO on the software side. These converged solutions allow for simplified infrastructures that scale by just adding additional blocks of integrated storage and compute.

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Storage Hardware Enterprise Enterprise 60

Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. After all can’t you use SDDC architecture to build a private cloud? It is comprised of different building blocks such as software-defined storage (STS), software-defined networking (SDN), compute virtualization and related services.

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Data Center Software Software Cloud 64

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 14, 2017

This is, of course, just one way of handling subnets within a VPC, but some of the principles outlined in Christopher’s article are definitely sound. Romain Decker has an “under the hood” look at the VMware NSX load balancer. Vladan Seget shares how to create a VMware ESXi ISO image with the latest patches.

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Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I think that’s the point Ivan tried to make as well—it’s the architecture and how OpenFlow is used that makes a difference. (Is Greg Schulz (aka StorageIO) has a couple of VMware storage tips posts you might find useful reading. Is that a reasonable summary, Ivan?). Read here for more information.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 110

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This leads Noorali into a high-level description of some of the features planned for Helm v3, which will move to an entirely client-side architecture (no more Tiller, yay!). Moving into storage, Rice mentions Rook, which as of September moved from the Sandbox into the CNCF Incubator. Helm v2.12.0 (the Rice moves on to Linkerd 2.0,

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Open Source Vmware Architecture Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

PowerNSX is pretty cool—it’s a set of PowerShell cmdlets for administrators of VMware NSX running in vSphere environments. Tony Sangha has a nice article providing step-by-step instructions on setting up a site-to-site IPSec VPN between VMware NSX and a Cisco CSR 1000v. There are some good (naturally), and also some bad (of course).

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

As a point of fact, training programs for this cloud computing certification have been recently announced by: New Horizons for delivery in Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Bulgaria; Firebrand Training in the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Austria and Luxemburg; and Fast (..)

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Training Policies Cloud Artificial Intelligence 70

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2018

Erik Hinderer takes a stab (based on his field experience) at estimating how long it takes to upgrade VMware NSX. Erik’s figures are just estimates, of course; actual values will be determined based on each customer’s specific environment. There is more work ahead, but it’s great to see progress being made.

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Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

On the flip side, though, I have to believe that it’s possible for organizations to make a gradual shift in their computing architectures and processes, so one almost has to discuss these various components individually, because to tie them all together makes it almost impossible. “Best practices” for vCNS 5.1 App Firewall?

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

CloudMASTER® training and certification is comprised of three courses with exams: NCTA Cloud Technologies that provide an overview of cloud computing that will help you develop a deep understanding of the models and understand the landscape of technologies used in the cloud and those employed by users of cloud services.

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Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

For me, the key takeaway was that you need to carefully examine the architecture of your application(s) in order to understand where serverless (function-as-a-service) is the best fit. Alan Renouf shows you how to retrieve NVMe storage device details using PowerCLI. Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox.

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 5, 2013

You could, of course, leverage a tool like Puppet or Chef or similar to help automate this process.). Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Learning NVP, Part 1: High-Level Architecture. Learning NVP, Part 8: An Update on the NVP to NSX Transition.

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Virtualization Transportation Network Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

On the flip side, though, I have to believe that it’s possible for organizations to make a gradual shift in their computing architectures and processes, so one almost has to discuss these various components individually, because to tie them all together makes it almost impossible. “Best practices” for vCNS 5.1 App Firewall?

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 60