Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Sometime in the next month or two (dates are still being finalized), I’ll be temporarily relocating to Tokyo, Japan, to help build out VMware’s Cloud Native Field Engineering team to provide consulting and professional services around cloud-native technologies and modern application platforms for customers in Japan.

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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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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 Way to go, Daniel!

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 10, 2019

Of course, I’ve never installed K8s and other than knowing Alex Ellis , the leader of the open source project for OpenFaaS, I don’t know the first thing about running functions on containers. Oh, did I forget to mention, other than installing Linux, I really shouldn’t be left to my own devices with a Linux console.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I don’t have any specific goals in mind for this project, although that is something I’ll be evaluating over the course of the year (I do agree that clear goals—something I didn’t establish last year—can help with progress.). Reinforce base Linux knowledge. This will be partly tied to #2.

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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. Your mileage may vary, of course. VMware recently GA’d vSphere 6.7, Feedback is always welcome! Networking. Operating Systems/Applications. Part 1 is available here.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In this post, I’m going to show you how to use KVM with Libvirt and macvtap interfaces for networking (as opposed to a Linux bridge or Open vSwitch ). Macvtap interfaces are related to macvlan interfaces (they share the same kernel driver), so you’ll want to first be sure your Linux kernel supports the macvlan driver. Other Resources.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Here’s a list of 35 advanced tutorials to help learn Kubernetes , courtesy of Aymen El Amri (and the authors of the various tutorials, of course). I recently spotted Multipass , a virtualization solution for working with Linux instances.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Mirantis joins a number of other vendors also offering OpenStack distributions, though Mirantis claims to be different on the basis that its OpenStack distribution is not tied to a particular Linux distribution. Of course, I’m not an expert, so I could be wrong. Linux Storage OpenStack OSS' Inktank Ceph Enterprise.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2014

Reinforce base Linux knowledge. Reinforce base Linux knowledge: I’ve been suggesting to VMUG attendees that they needed to learn Linux, as it’s popping up all over the place in all sorts of roles. There’s always room to grow, of course. Continue using Puppet for automation. So, how did I do?

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

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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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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 30, 2017

The program is comprised of three courses: Cloud Technologies, Cloud Operations, and Cloud Architecture. In these courses, students will learn concepts, principles, techniques, and practices needed to administer and secure a modern cloud-enabled business environment.

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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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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. Here’s a look at using govc to manage vSphere from the Linux command line.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. Container technologies ( Docker , most notably, but also CoreOS and etcd ); recommends this Docker course. Docker course: [link]. Show Notes.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In this post, I’m going to discuss how to use the popular command line utility curl to interact with a couple of RESTful APIs—specifically, the OpenStack APIs and the VMware NSX API. Example 2: Authenticating to VMware NSX. VMware NSX is one example. VMware NSX controllers only listen on HTTPS (not HTTP).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Noorali starts out with a quick introduction/overview of Helm, likening it to yum or apt for Linux packages. Sinha does point about that these projects are not limited to GKE, of course.). Kuo comes back to the stage to introduce Wendy Cartee, Senior Director of Cloud Native Advocacy at VMware.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere. David Holder has a post on using Terraform to create a highly available, cross-AZ etcd cluster. Phoummala Schmitt talks about the importance of tags with cloud resources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The challenge, says Bernard Golden, executive technical advisor at VMware, is how to make sure sensitive corporate data is protected and kept out of the general pool that makes up LLM databases. Of course, the benefit of using cloud services is that customers can select whatever infrastructure configuration suits their needs.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cumulus VX, if you aren’t aware, is a community-supported virtual appliance version of Cumulus Linux aimed at helping folks preview and test “full-blown” Cumulus Linux (which, of course, requires compatible hardware). Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

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Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

His journey started in June 2014 as a result of the Microsoft announcement regarding support for Linux and Kubernetes on Azure—this really indicated a shift in the industry. Container technologies ( Docker , most notably, but also CoreOS and etcd ); recommends this Docker course. Docker course: [link]. Show Notes.

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 18, 2012

This behavior is, of course, configurable.) Because of these default behaviors, users in VMware environments simply connect multiple links to their hosts and off they go. The use of a different Linux distribution and/or a different version of OVS might make this process slightly different. Other environments behave differently.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Here’s a walkthrough to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox. Thinking of virtualizing Linux on Hyper-V? Then you may find this list of tips for Linux performance on Hyper-V to be useful. Of course, the idea of a “DevOps” role is a topic unto itself, but I’ll leave that for some future article.). Virtualization. environments.

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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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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 13, 2013

I got into a spirited debate on twitter with a buddy regarding XenDesktop vs. VMware Horizon Suite. There’s client’s for Blackberry, Windows 8, iOS, Linux and Android just to name a few. I plan on during a full comparison of View and XenDesktop. XenApp/XenDesktop uses the Citrix ICA protocol and therefore the Citrix Receiver.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

That’s assuming your laptop is beefy enough, of course.). Both of these are definitely worth reading if you want a bit more detail on how one of VMware’s newest technologies, VSAN, is going to impact the end-user computing (EUC) space. This is an older post from April 2013, but still useful, I think.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 21, 2013

On OS X or Linux, this installs with the OS; on Windows, you’ll need a client like PuTTY. Your mileage may vary, of course. VMware Weak Spot. Linux Virtualization CLI KVM SSH' In this post, I’ll show you how to use SSH to access the VNC console of a KVM guest domain. A VNC client. Application-Specific VPNs.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 22, 2015

Standing in the way, of course, are software walled gardens—and eliminating those software walled gardens is the goal that Docker is attempting to achieve. 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.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Of course we might be a little biased as our first pick is our very own Information Technology Blog , a portal to several of our other favorite Information Technology Blogs and a collection of articles that we’ve found to be useful for a variety of vistors, both beginners and experts alike. Your gateway to the VMware universe.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Of course, we might be a little biased as our first pick is our very own Information Technology Blog , a portal to several of our other favorite Tech Blogs and a collection of articles that we’ve found to be useful for a variety of visitors, both beginners and experts alike. Your gateway to the VMware universe. 9 to 5 Mac.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

However, while you may have the Docker provider as part of Vagrant, you still need Docker itself (just like if you have the VMware provider for Vagrant, you still need the appropriate VMware product— VMware Fusion on the Mac or VMware Workstation on Windows/Linux) in order to provide the functionality Vagrant will consume.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

However, while you may have the Docker provider as part of Vagrant, you still need Docker itself (just like if you have the VMware provider for Vagrant, you still need the appropriate VMware product— VMware Fusion on the Mac or VMware Workstation on Windows/Linux) in order to provide the functionality Vagrant will consume.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

Of course, we might be a little biased as our first pick is our very own Information Technology Blog , a portal to several of our other favorite Tech Blogs and a collection of articles that we’ve found to be useful for a variety of visitors, both beginners and experts alike. Your gateway to the VMware universe. 9 to 5 Mac.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

Of course we might be a little biased as our first pick is our very own Information Technology Blog , a portal to several of our other favorite Information Technology Blogs and a collection of articles that we’ve found to be useful for a variety of vistors, both beginners and experts alike. Your gateway to the VMware universe.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

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. Here’s a handy post by Dale Coghlan on how to find object IDs for just about anything in a VMware NSX environment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (how’s that for a mouthful?)

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Of course, we might be a little biased as our first pick is our very own Information Technology Blog , a portal to several of our other favorite Tech Website and Blogs and a collection of articles that we’ve found to be useful for a variety of visitors, both beginners and experts alike. Your gateway to the VMware universe.

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