CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2022

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Software 91

Software Software Vmware Data Center 91

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Of course, the distinction between control plane protocols and data plane protocols isn’t always perfectly clear. Of course, I am a fan of network virtualization, since I work with/on VMware NSX.). Martijn Smit has launched a series of articles on VMware NSX. Here’s hoping you find something useful!

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Thus, these services will begin to commoditize, and with the popularity of multicloud, core services such as storage and computing will be pretty much the same from cloud to cloud.” Of course, the benefit of using cloud services is that customers can select whatever infrastructure configuration suits their needs.

Trends 143

Trends Cloud Oracle Enterprise 143

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2016

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Vmware 70

Vmware Web Services Training Cloud 70

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

This leads to a talk about VMware’s 10 years of innovation, with products and features like ESX, vMotion, DRS, Storage vMotion, and more. She then introduces Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO. He pays particular attention to mission-critical apps on VMware, calling out Oracle, SAP, and others. in the first half of 2014.

Vmware 63

Vmware Virtualization Data Center Storage 63

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. Here’s YAKI (Yet Another Kubernetes Introduction).

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

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). No, I mean I really am kidding—don’t read stuff over the holidays. Networking.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Keith Townsend: VMworld session review – NET2207, VMware vSphere Distributed Switch Technical Deep Dive. Derek Seaman: VMworld 2012 – VMware vSphere Hardening to Achieve Regulatory Compliance INF-SEC1840. Derek Seaman: VMworld – Architecting Storage DRS Clusters INF-STO1545. Vladan Seget: Top VMware vSphere 5.1

Vmware 107

Vmware Virtualization Conference Hardware 107

Virtualized Greek

MARCH 25, 2014

The CPU, Storage and in some cases network are collapsing into tightly integrated platforms. Examples include Nutanix on the hardware side and VMware VSAN or EMC ScaleIO on the software side. These converged solutions allow for simplified infrastructures that scale by just adding additional blocks of integrated storage and compute.

Storage 80

Storage Hardware Architecture Enterprise 80

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. Servers/Hardware.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

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. This would include products like VMware VSAN as well as projects like Ceph and others.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Michael Preston shares his thoughts on containers in a post titled “A VMware guy’s perspective on containers.” I know that a lot of my readers are VMware-centric in their jobs and careers, so I think Michael’s post may be helpful to a lot of folks. This is all unsupported stuff, of course, but that hasn’t stopped home-labbers before.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Open Source Data Center 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This session will not focus on the VMware announcement regarding VMware Cloud on AWS. Butler mentions S3 as potential solutions here, and points out the three tiers of object-based storage: S3 Standard, S3 Infrequent Access, and Amazon Glacier. The Storage Gateway’s storage is backed by S3 and offers a standard iSCSI interface.

Architecture 60

Architecture Cloud Storage Vmware 60

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. If you’re a real storage geek (or if you’re not but are having trouble sleeping), check out this USENIX presentation on erasure coding in Windows Azure storage. Interesting.

Storage 111

Storage Vmware WAN Virtualization 111

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Of course, I’m not an expert, so I could be wrong. I wonder if it would make sense for Inktank to pursue some integration with VMware, given VMware’s strong position in the enterprise market. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

Open Source 60

Open Source Linux Vmware Enterprise 60

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.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Hardware Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 28, 2014

Welcome to part 13 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I revisit the idea of logical networking with VMware NSX. To start things off, let’s first do a quick recap of what it looks like to manually create a logical network in VMware NSX (all of this is described in part 5 of the series): Create a logical switch. See here.).

Network 60

Network Vmware .Net 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. Servers/Hardware.

Devops 60

Devops Vmware Storage Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If Readers can, of course, extrapolate from the concepts presented here to include other development environments. If you’re not familiar with VCF, see here.). This is kind of cool.

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. It is comprised of different building blocks such as software-defined storage (STS), software-defined networking (SDN), compute virtualization and related services. An example of this is storage. The same challenges exist in SDN.

Data Center 74

Data Center Software Software Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2015

VMware was criticized in years past for “eating the ecosystem”; it looks like we’ll see some of the same here with Docker. This makes sense, of course, because it benefits Flocker—which will be able to take advantage of the storage plugin endpoint to modify/customize/extend the behavior of Docker volumes. Sumo Logic.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Applications HP 60

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.

Web Services 70

Web Services Architecture Cloud Programming 70

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).

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2013

Of course, there are blogs that go for months between posts, so a small gap of a couple weeks isn’t really a big deal. I’m also exploring new posts on Puppet, Open vSwitch (OVS), OpenFlow, and—who knows—maybe VMware will have some snazzy announcements at VMworld that will give me new fodder for posts.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Storage Course 60

Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I was listening to the VMware Community Podcast with one of their Advisory practice leaders. It is comprised of different building blocks such as software-defined storage (STS), software-defined networking (SDN), compute virtualization and related services. An example of this is storage. The same challenges exist in SDN.

Data Center 64

Data Center Software Software Cloud 64

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).

Authentication 93

Authentication Vmware Examples Applications 93

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Moving into storage, Rice mentions Rook, which as of September moved from the Sandbox into the CNCF Incubator. 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. Rice moves on to Linkerd 2.0,

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Architecture Cloud 60

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. I don’t have any links to share this time, sorry!

Load Balancer 60

Load Balancer Cloud Applications Vmware 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). List of Resources.

Devops 60

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). List of Resources.

Devops 60

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. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Other environments behave differently.

Virtualization 125

Virtualization Vmware Network Exercises 125

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.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization Storage 60

Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

As a point of fact, training programs for this cloud computing certification have been recently announced by: New Horizons for delivery in Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Bulgaria; Firebrand Training in the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Austria and Luxemburg; and Fast (..)

Training 70

Training Policies Cloud Artificial Intelligence 70

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.). This also ties in nicely with my new job role at Nicira/VMware.

Linux 92

Linux Data Center Network Open Source 92

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. The vSphere provider for Terraform (did you know there was one?) recently hit 1.0,

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Comparison Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2014

In my original 2013 project list , I said that I was going to focus on RHEL and RHEL variants, but over the course of the year ended up focusing more on Debian and Ubuntu instead (due to more up-to-date packages and closer alignment with OpenStack). There’s always room to grow, of course. Grade: B (above average).

Report 60

Report Linux Network Data Center 60

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.

Cloud 70

Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70