Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? Fatima Silveira has a good article on using the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler. Networking.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

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. Michael Kashin shares the journey of containerizing NVIDIA Cumulus Linux.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Timothy Perrett has an article on Envoy with Nomad and Consul. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a great way.

Windows 60

Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Timothy Perrett has an article on Envoy with Nomad and Consul. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a great way.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. This article is chock-full of useful information that, typically, can only be gathered from direct experience (like the note on using istioctl instead of the Istio Operator to avoid an issue when upgrading from 1.6 Something about Linux, and Fedora in particular, just keeps drawing me back.

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. This is an older article, but hopefully still useful nevertheless: Brian Mathews explains how to use the linkerd sidecar to find and fix application issues on Kubernetes. Martin Heinz discusses that very topic in this post. Programming.

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Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Network World

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Announced in June of last year, Cisco’s Tetration Analytics is a turnkey analytics package that gathers information from hardware and software sensors and analyzes the information using big data and machine learning. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Cloud Data Center Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. Servers/Hardware. Jorge Castro encourages folks to just kill the silly myths (regarding desktop Linux). Welcome to Technology Short Take #154!

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Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

I have another collection of links, articles, and thoughts about key data center technologies, and hopefully I’ve managed to include something here that will prove useful or thought-provoking. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #81!

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

This article from Marcos Hernandez shows one way to do dynamic routing in OpenStack. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Welcome to Technology Short Take #125, where I have a collection of articles about various data center and cloud technologies collected from around the Internet. Servers/Hardware. Eric Hammond has a great article on running AWS CLI commands across multiple accounts in an AWS organization. Networking. Good stuff here!

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Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I recommend reading this article, as well as reading the comments. Cumulus Networks recently introduced the Cumulus Linux Network Command Line Utility (NCLU) , which provides a more unified front-end to configuring switches running Cumulus Linux. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 18, 2017

Craig Matsumoto has an informative article on why machine learning is hard to apply to networking. I’ve heard David Meyer—who is quoted extensively in the article—speak several times, and most of the time his stuff is way beyond my understanding. This article by Alin Serdean from Cloudbase Solutions describes how it’s done.

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Linux Network Hardware Dell 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful. Timothy Perrett has an article on Envoy with Nomad and Consul. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Windows 60

Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 21, 2016

As usual, I gathered an odd collection of links and articles from around the web on key data center technologies and trends. Michael Ryom has a nice (but short) article on using Log Insight along with a NetFlow proxy to help provide more detailed visibility into traffic flows between VMs on NSX logical networks. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

Ivan Pepelnjak has a fantastic article on adapting network design to acommodate automation. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems. Servers/Hardware. Bruno Hildenbrand shares 20 tips for managing Linux VMs on Azure.

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Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Not unsurprisingly, one of the key advantages of STT that’s highlighted is its improved performance due to TSO support in NIC hardware. Servers/Hardware. I needed to fill in some other knowledge gaps first.)

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Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Ready for another round of links, articles, and thoughts on data center technologies? Servers/Hardware. If you’re using CloudFormation to manage your AWS security groups in an infrastructure-as-code approach, you owe it to yourself to check out this article by Jose Luis Ordiales. Welcome to Technology Short Take 94!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Servers/Hardware. On the hardware side of things, we have James Hamilton of AWS discussing two hardware-related items coming out of AWS re:Invent 2018. This is a slightly older article by Mitch Beaumont that I’ve had sitting in the hopper for a while. Benjamin Dale suggests that you don’t know JunOS.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. It was good to read this post on Cumulus Linux first impressions by Jeremy Stretch. ” I highly encourage reading this article.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 65

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev is back with another article in a series of articles on using hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) with VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. Dale Coghlan has an article on bulk DFW rule creation that might be helpful in such instances. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?)

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Tor Anderson has an article on using IPv6 for network boot using UEFI and iPXE. Kirk Byers has a helpful article that provides some suggestions and guidelines for how to make your network automation/network scripts become more than just your own personal hobby at work. Servers/Hardware. I highly recommend this article.

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Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Devops 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 30, 2018

Vadim Eisenberg has two articles that describe how to integrate external services into an Istio service mesh. The first article covers integrating external web services ; the second article discusses consuming external TCP services. Servers/Hardware. Also see this VentureBeat article. Networking. Virtualization.

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Linux Vmware Windows Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

OK, now that I’ve mentioned Skydive, I can talk about this article that provides an example of functional SDN testing with Terraform and Skydive. Servers/Hardware. I found this article on SELinux concepts for humans to be quite helpful. The project’s GitHub repository is here , and documentation for Skydive is here. What’s that?

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

Welcome to Technology Short Take #68, my erratically-published collection of links, articles, and posts from around the web—all focused on today’s major data center technologies. Both articles are useful, IMHO, especially considering that MACVLAN is no longer experimental as of the Docker 1.12 Servers/Hardware.

Linux 60

Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

Welcome to Technology Short Take #33, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles discussing various data center technology-related links, articles, rants, thoughts, and questions. Servers/Hardware. Via Forbes Guthrie on Twitter, I saw this post on how to setup a CA on Linux and use it in a Windows environment.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 105

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. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #85! PowerNSX in a container? Feeling geeky?

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post, I’ve gathered links to posts about networking, virtualization, Docker, containers, Linux, configuration management, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Here’s a nice article on using Ansible with Arista EOS. If you haven’t read Brent’s article on building network tools with Docker , I highly recommend it.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles about the major data center technologies. While I’m talking about the overlay/underlay model, I found this article by Tom Nolle discussing how using the overlay/underlay model could enable agile infrastructure. Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #66!

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #44, the latest in my irregularly-published series of articles, links, ideas, and thoughts about various data center-related technologies. Servers/Hardware. Networking. Is Intel having second thoughts about software-defined infrastructure? Impressive. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

Linux 60

Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

I have, however, finally managed to pull together this list of links and articles from around the Internet, and I hope that something I’ve included here proves useful to readers. Milind Gunjan shares some tips for troubleshooting Linux bridged networking on a KVM host. Servers/Hardware. Networking. configurations.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2014

Servers/Hardware. Here’s a quick article on how to assess if your Linux-based server is affected. I recently built a Windows Server 2008 R2 image for use in my OpenStack home lab. You might also check out Cloudbase.it, which offers a version of cloud-init for Windows as well as some prebuilt evaluation images.

Vmware 60

Vmware Windows Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

As usual, here’s my random collection of links, articles, and thoughts about various data center technologies. That prompted Cody Bunch to write this article on setting up a topology with BGP on Linux using the topology converter , which I’m now mentioning in this Technology Short Take. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Today I have another collection of data center technology links, articles, thoughts, and rants. ” Those familiar with networking concepts will identify well with the ideas in this article, I think. Barry Peddycord shares an update on Ansible support for the Cumulus Linux NCLU. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

As usual, I’ve gathered what I hope to be a useful but varied collection of articles and links on key data center technologies. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Until then, here’s some data center-related articles and links for your enjoyment. Andrey Khomyakov shares some information on automating the setup of whitebox switches running Cumulus Linux in part 2 of this series on learning network automation. Servers/Hardware. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems.

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Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60