Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

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. Michael Preston shares his thoughts on containers in a post titled “A VMware guy’s perspective on containers.” Alpine Linux 3.5 Virtualization. Neat trick!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

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. As a partial counterpoint to the increased use/visibility of Linux in the networking industry, check out Ivan’s take on Dell’s OS10 announcement. Virtualization.

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Vmware Open Source Linux Devops 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2014

In this post, I’ll show you how I got Arista’s vEOS software running under KVM to create a virtualized Arista switch. The vEOS disk image, provided as a VMware VMDK. Building a Virtual Lab with Arista vEOS and VirtualBox. Wrapping libvirt Virtual Networks Around Open vSwitch Fake Bridges.

Virtualization 62

Virtualization Linux Network Vmware 62

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

VMware has a similar offering via the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service recovery-as-a-service offering. Preston Bannister took a look at cloud application backup in OpenStack. Virtualization. Running Hyper-V with Linux VMs? Ben Armstrong details what versions of Linux support the various Hyper-V features in this post.

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Monitoring of virtual servers. SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. Monitoring of operating time and periods of inactivity (uptime /downtime). Bandwidth monitoring using SNMP, WMI, NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, packet sniffing. Application monitoring. Web monitoring. SLA monitoring (service level agreement). Environmental monitoring.

Network 60

Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

This is part two of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack with a focus on my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3) including into a nested VMware vSphere ESXi environment. Read part one here that provides a general overview of Azure Stack.

Vmware 58

Vmware Microsoft Data Center Dell 58

Scott Lowe

JUNE 22, 2015

Hykes says that micro-segmentation is built in to Docker Network, which allows people to assemble virtual networks into any topology. Firshman shows off the use of the VMware Fusion driver for Docker Machine so that he can deploy some containers defined via Docker Compose to run/test the application on his local laptop.

Linux 60

Linux Applications Network Tools 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. Vormetric interested me because they offer a data encryption product, and I was interested to see how—if at all—they integrated with VMware vSphere.

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 62

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer for Midokura, helps make a case for network virtualization. Note: Midokura makes a network virtualization solution.) If you’re wondering about network virtualization and why there is a focus on it, this post might help shed some light. Virtualization. Good post Frank!

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 101

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. The more famous of these is Kali Linux, from Offensive Security. Vamosi: A virtual machine is literally that, a computer that runs virtually inside your own computer.

Network 52

Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sometimes the decryption worked, sometimes it didn’t, creating headaches for system admins worldwide who didn’t have good backups in place. The more famous of these is Kali Linux, from Offensive Security. Vamosi: A virtual machine is literally that, a computer that runs virtually inside your own computer.

Network 52

Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2016

For example, you might feel “locked in” to Microsoft (via Office or Windows) or “locked in” to Oracle (via their database platform or applications), or even “locked in” to VMware through vCenter and vSphere. They might have various levels of lock-in, but lock-in exists everywhere: Linux has lock-in. What about backups?

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Oracle Backup 60

Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

This is part one of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack providing an overview, preview and review. Read part two here that looks at my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3). For those who are not aware, Azure Stack is a private on-premise extension of the Azure public cloud environment.

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Microsoft Cloud Data Center Dell 70

Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 17, 2017

Need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics including reference architecture among other resources for various application workloads? Microsoft Azure has an architecture and resources page (here) that includes various application workload reference tools.

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Resources Software Software Microsoft 40