Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Tony Sangha took PowerNSX (a set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with NSX) and created a tool to help document the NSX Distributed Firewall configuration. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? What’s that?

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Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. At the recent OCP Summit, Microsoft introduced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall.

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

specifically, the new container network firewall functionality. When I was using Fedora, I needed some useful information on firewall-cmd , and found this article to be helpful. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. The NIST and DHS have teamed up on some efforts to secure BGP; more information is available in this article.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a good post on Kubernetes Ingress by Jay Gorrell. Timothy Perrett has an article on Envoy with Nomad and Consul. RegEx tester.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a good post on Kubernetes Ingress by Jay Gorrell. Timothy Perrett has an article on Envoy with Nomad and Consul. RegEx tester.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2018

And CFEngine, which provide automation for infrastructure, cloud, compliance and security management, integration for deployment and continuous deployment (CI / CD). With over 1300 modules, Ansible simplifies several aspects of IT infrastructure, including web, database, network, cloud, cluster, monitoring, and storage.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 24, 2015

This is kind of cool, and (in my humble opinion) a sign of changing times: Juniper has Vagrant boxes as well as a Vagrant plugin for working with vSRX (virtual firewall) VMs (via this article from Matt Oswalt). Here are some general guidelines for configuring syslog forwarding on a Cisco ASA firewall. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Storage Firewall Network 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

I was also recently introduced to a company called HexaTier (formerly GreenSQL), which provides a database security product supporting both on-premises deployments as well as cloud-based deployments, and supports public cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Virtualization.

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. What does this mean?

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Anthony Burke gives a little bit of a sneak peek at some functionality from the upcoming v3 release of PowerNSX: searching NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Here’s a good post on Kubernetes Ingress by Jay Gorrell. Timothy Perrett has an article on Envoy with Nomad and Consul.

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Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2023

This feature is particularly useful in environments where only HTTP traffic is allowed, such as in a web proxy or firewall. The VNC protocol is designed to be platform-independent, meaning that it can be used to access and control computers running on any operating system, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and others.

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Virtualization Network Linux Windows 36

Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

SSH: For Linux / Unix and MacOS systems. Detailed reports. What to Monitor. PRTG monitors all types of systems, devices and applications in your IT infrastructure: SNMP: Ready to use and with customization options. Windows and WMI performance counters.

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Network LAN VOIP Licensing 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

In the event you’re interested in an idea of how much latency the use of in-kernel hypervisor firewalling (such as that offered by VMware NSX) adds, have a look at this article by Sean Howard. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Maybe next time? Michael Wittig has an article on using AWS IAM to manage EC2 SSH keys.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Eva Andreasson has been working with JVMs, SOA, Cloud, and infrastructure software for 15+ years. Finding Value in Enterprise Data with High-Performance Analytics. Dr. Daniel Duffy. High Performance Computing Lead, NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Eva Andreasson has been working with JVMs, SOA, Cloud, and infrastructure software for 15+ years. Finding Value in Enterprise Data with High-Performance Analytics. Dr. Daniel Duffy. High Performance Computing Lead, NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).

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Program Management Fractional CTO CTO Programming 150

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Prasenjit Sarkar, who works in VMware R&D, and runs the Stretch Cloud site , has a write-up on using Data Center Extension (DCE) to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS).

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Fountainhead

MAY 5, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.). Cloud Computing. (55). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Tuesday, May 5, 2009.

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Data Center Virtualization Disaster Recovery Storage 100

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

This Technology Short Take is a bit heavy on cloud, OS, and programming topics, but there should be enough other interesting links to be useful to plenty of folks. (At Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Need to list assets across multiple cloud providers? Networking.

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Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Still, there’s a decent collection of networking, cloud computing, and virtualization articles as well as a smattering of other topics for you to peruse. ” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Another post by Tom Nolle explores the relationship—complicated at times—between SDN, NFV, and the cloud. App Firewall? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Venky explains it in this post.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 105

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The use of VMware NSX for microsegmentation is a really popular use case, and so the topic of scripting distributed firewall (DFW) rules often comes up. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Pradipta Kumar Banerjee has an article on using local storage for instances in OpenStack. Now, I’m likely to take some heat (Ha!

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Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

ForAllSecure

MARCH 30, 2022

You might start out with an innocent question, like what if someone misconfigured their cloud configuration could it lead to holding the keys to Microsoft’s Azure Surface Fabric framework? Vamosi: Cloud security is relatively new and as such it probably hasn’t gotten as much attention as it deserves. Like chasing a rabbit.

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Firewall Virtualization Authentication Linux 52

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2013

I try to keep the information linked to data center technologies like networking, storage, virtualization, and the like, but occasionally other items slip through. Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ). Networking.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 106

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Firewall Windows Linux Architecture 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Another post by Tom Nolle explores the relationship—complicated at times—between SDN, NFV, and the cloud. App Firewall? Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Venky explains it in this post.

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HP Virtualization Hardware Network 60

Linux Academy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

This November at Linux Academy, we have loads of new content coming your way! To all of our learners who may know someone who wants to learn more about the cloud or Linux, but they have been on the fence about signing up for a free community edition account, then tell them that right now is a great time for them to sign up!

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Linux Systems Administration Cloud Google 16

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. Roie Ben Haim, who works in professional services at VMware, has a deep dive on the NSX distributed firewall (DFW). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This time around, the content is a bit heavier on cloud management and applications/operating systems, but still lots of good content all the way around (I hope, anyway). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. In the event you’d like to use CoreOS with ECS, here are the instructions (accomplished easily via cloud-init).

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Open Source Vmware Network IBM 60

Linux Academy

DECEMBER 3, 2019

AWS has certainly strengthened its enterprise offerings with an eye on being the one-stop-shop for enterprise in the cloud. Outposts is a hybrid cloud product that really opens the door for all types of enterprises to adopt AWS. This is another exciting feature for the object storage service. In closing.

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