Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 7, 2016

Bart’s view is that a full-stack engineer knows about operations, the hardware stack (compute, storage, network), the software (network, operating system [OS], management, logging), and most importantly knows how to “code” an immutable infrastructure. Microsoft and/or VMware , but do not start here (start elsewhere).

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Devops Engineering Conference Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Operating Systems/Applications. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Michael Preston shares his thoughts on containers in a post titled “A VMware guy’s perspective on containers.” Way to go, Daniel! Give it a read, if you get the chance.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 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. Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Anthony Spiteri shares a Terraform configuration he created to deploy a sandbox Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere. Operating Systems/Applications. 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.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. Galido.net Information Technology Blog.

Resources 113

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 113

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Looking for more VMware NSX content? Anthony Burke has started a new series focusing on VMware NSX in pure vSphere environments. Juan Manuel Rey has launched a series of blog posts on deploying OpenStack with KVM and VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Need more details on PFS? Technology Short Take #35.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. recently hit 1.0,

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Galido

MAY 1, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. CIO Dashboard. The Next Web.

Resources 107

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. CIO Dashboard. The Next Web.

Resources 107

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

APRIL 8, 2013

Of course, Big Switch recently moved to “diversify,” if you will, away from just Floodlight with the introduction of Switch Light. Operating Systems/Applications. Macintosh Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation iSCSI OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet SDN VMware' Interesting. Technology Short Take #25.

Storage 108

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 108

Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. Galido.net Information Technology Blog.

Resources 66

Resources Mobile Data Center Security 66

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

These areas of tech include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Operating System & Software Blogs. TechWorld – Operating Systems. CIO Dashboard. The Next Web.

Mobile 77

Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

That’s assuming your laptop is beefy enough, of course.). Operating Systems/Applications. 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. What makes up a hybrid cloud?

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

And you have to look through all of that data that you've gathered over the course of the pen test. Crawley: If you're gonna focus largely on physical pen testing you might want to take some block picking courses and stuff like that. Vamosi: There are at least two complete operating systems available for pentesters.

Network 52

Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

And you have to look through all of that data that you've gathered over the course of the pen test. Crawley: If you're gonna focus largely on physical pen testing you might want to take some block picking courses and stuff like that. Vamosi: There are at least two complete operating systems available for pentesters.

Network 52

Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2017

Operating Systems/Applications. Of course, the idea of a “DevOps” role is a topic unto itself, but I’ll leave that for some future article.). I just noticed this article about using Nova flavor extra-specs to pass QoS data down to the virtualization layer. That’s handy.

Linux 60

Linux Devops Open Source Virtualization 60

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. Operating Systems/Applications. Your mileage may vary, of course.).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Storage 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2015

Of course, I’m sure there are trade-offs each way. I think I’ve mentioned this before (it’s really hard to keep track of which articles you’ve included in a Technology Short Take already, so apologies if this is a duplicate), but this article provides a good overview of the VXLAN control plane modes in VMware NSX. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Virtualization Tools 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Operating Systems/Applications. Greg Schulz (aka StorageIO) has a couple of VMware storage tips posts you might find useful reading. Winston Bumpus of VMware’s Office of the CTO has more information in this post. Of course, the real question is how long it will be before vendors add support for OVF 2.0,

Vmware 110

Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 110

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

I’m kidding, of course—the content is well worth reading.). Operating Systems/Applications. If you aren’t using vSphere Host Profiles, this write-up on the VMware SMB blog might convince you why you should and show you how to get started. “Best practices” for vCNS 5.1 App Firewall?

HP 105

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 105

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 30, 2013

Following on the heels of this week’s VMware NSX announcement at VMworld 2013, I had someone contact me about a statement this person had heard. Do you really want to incur the computational overhead of using encryption for all intra-DC traffic?

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Network Linux Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

I’m kidding, of course—the content is well worth reading.). Operating Systems/Applications. If you aren’t using vSphere Host Profiles, this write-up on the VMware SMB blog might convince you why you should and show you how to get started. “Best practices” for vCNS 5.1 App Firewall?

HP 60

HP Virtualization Hardware Network 60