CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

This fragmented approach inhibits innovation, because so much time and energy are diverted into configuring, initializing, and managing separate operating systems, and establishing best practices for each. Storage efficiency. The solution can be deployed quickly and managed very simply through a single console.

Backup 90

Backup Storage Cloud Vmware 90

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Welcome to Technology Short Take #146! Networking. Virtualization.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I’m a huge fan of VMware products. VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. But no matter how much I and my peer like the solution, VMware impresses the wrong crowd and may be headed down the path of other great infrastructure technologies like Novell Netware.

Vmware 65

Vmware Development Cloud Data Center 65

Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

Virtualization is popular these days for businesses for several reasons, but primarily to reduce hardware and infrastructure costs, performance, backups and redundancy, while being able to scale infrastructure and provide resources on demand. . Bare metal virtualization runs virtualization software installed directly on hardware.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Backup Vmware Operating Systems 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Humair Ahmed of VMware shares some details on a new control plane resiliency feature recently added to VMware NSX: Controller Disconnected Operation (CDO) mode. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Yes, please! (I

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Last week at VMworld , I had the opportunity to meet with Lightbits Labs , a relatively new startup working on what they called “disaggregated storage.” So what is “disaggregated storage”? Lightbits has their own operating system, LightOS, which runs on industry-standard x64 servers from Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc.

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Meeting Storage HP Dell 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Nothing this time around, sorry!

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 2, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Given the prevalence of VMware’s ESXi hypervisor, I suppose it was only a matter of time before the bad guys really started targeting it in a major way. This time, they’re exploiting a weakness that VMware can’t patch: people. Operating Systems/Applications. Aye aye, Popeye!

Vmware 60

Vmware Firewall Storage Comparison 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. Ajeet Singh Raina has a write-up on running Docker Datacenter on VMware vSphere. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

Cumulus Networks has added another hardware partner to its list of supported hardware partners; this time it’s Mellanox, as outlined in this SDx Central article. Servers/Hardware. VMware recently released version 0.8 Operating Systems/Applications. Highly recommended reading! Good stuff. What is Platypus?

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Linux Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 20, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Guido Appenzeller—once my manager at VMware, now at Yubico—shared this article about the Cerberus banking trojan , which is apparently now able to steal two-factor authentication (2FA) tokens from the Google Authenticator application. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time around.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Authentication Storage 60

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. Some good advice here on scaling/sizing VXLAN in VMware deployments (as well as some useful background information to help explain the advice). Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Storage Virtualization HP 106

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

First up is Brent Salisbury’s how to build an SDN lab without needing OpenFlow hardware. Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. by Qlogic called “Mt.

Vmware 108

Vmware Virtualization Storage Hardware 108

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

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. Want some additional information on layer 2 and layer 3 services in VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Here’s a good source.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. For relevant storage news, I’d recommend having a look at J Metz’ Storage Short Take 42. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon hardware has seen a few developments in recent days and weeks. network virtualization). Programming.

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Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Normally I talk about server hardware and such here, but with so much moving to public cloud providers, let’s expand that focus a little bit: in this post , Jeramiah Dooley provides his perspective on the Surface Duo after a month of use. Operating Systems/Applications. I guess time will tell.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2016

Here’s a pair of articles ( one here and one here ) that describe the port connections required between the various components in a VMware NSX deployment. Servers/Hardware. These posts are a bit slanted toware VMware vSphere environments, but very detailed, very thorough, and very useful. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston discusses workload acceleration options—specifically, storage acceleration via NVMe or PCIe SSDs—for blade servers. He also has a good article outlining some storage options for various blade server platforms that might be helpful as well. Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. Storage Stephen Wagner discusses a situation in which all VMs are inaccessible after graceful cluster shutdown and restart. to version 8.0.

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. Virtualization.

Vmware 65

Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 65

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Servers/Hardware. Better patch your vCenter Server instances, as VMware released a security advisory with a long list of CVEs , including one with a severity score of 9.8/10. Operating Systems/Applications. Vincent Bernat provides some feedback on Cisco pyATS and Genie Parser. are affected). See more details here.

Open Source 107

Open Source Cloud Network Storage 107

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Servers/Hardware. It will be available next year, and will come in a “native AWS” flavor as well as a VMware flavor (see William Lam’s post for more details on the VMware flavor). Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I’ve got a wide range of topics for you this time around—eBPF, Falco, Snort, Kyverno, etcd, VMware Code Stream, and more. Servers/Hardware. Kaizhe Huang examines Falco versus AuditD from a host intrusion detection system (HIDS) perspective. Eclypsium discusses ways of protecting system firmware storage.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Study Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization?

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Sirish Raghuram has some thoughts on the VMware-AWS announcement (about VMware Cloud on AWS) compared to the “Omni” announcement at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. Blueprints that demonstrate VMware-Chef integration. Operating Systems/Applications. on Ubuntu 16.04. Have a look here.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Intel 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. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Intel Storage 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). Servers/Hardware. Dwayne Sinclair (an NSX SE at VMware) has a write-up on what micro-segmentation is not.

Vmware 60

Vmware Devops Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Teammate Alex Brand has a look at VMware’s new OVS-based CNI plugin, Antrea. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. I recently saw an article stating that VMware is going to use Minio as the object storage platform for Kubernetes, but the evidence presented in the article is anything but convincing.

Open Source 60

Open Source Vmware Authentication Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Mircea’s right—bugs will happen in all software (VMware NSX has had its share, for example), but the key is in how it’s handled. Doug Youd of Cumulus has an excellent 3-part series on the use of LACP in VMware vSphere environments. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Nothing this time around.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

Servers/Hardware. This past week Microsoft and VMware announced Azure VMware Solutions, which allows customers to run the VMware software stack on Azure (an arrangement similar in nature to VMware Cloud on AWS, as I understand it). Operating Systems/Applications. It’s the end of an era.

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Vmware Open Source Intel Applications 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Uh oh… more hardware exploits. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware finally splits VMware Tools out from vSphere. Blake Garner shares a Packer template for macOS 11 on VMware Fusion. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. Servers/Hardware. The VMware Cloud-Native Apps group has a breakdown of some of the new features/functionality found in the 1.9 Richard Boswell has a series going on VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) and resource schedulers that is (so far) pretty good.

Vmware 60

Vmware Open Source Linux Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 27, 2018

VMware has released a PowerCLI preview/fling for NSX-T; Kyle Ruddy has a write-up here. Servers/Hardware. VMware has launched a SIG for Kubernetes on VMware. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently GA’d vSphere 6.7, Feedback is always welcome! Networking. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Open Source Security 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Servers/Hardware. On the hardware side of things, we have James Hamilton of AWS discussing two hardware-related items coming out of AWS re:Invent 2018. Operating Systems/Applications. Dave Taylor provides s ome tips for configuring VMware Fusion for Linux usage. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Hardware Case Study 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Servers/Hardware. Cisco UCS is pretty cool in that it makes automation of compute hardware easier through such abstractions as server profiles. Speaking of Puppet and hardware, I also saw a mention on Twitter about a Puppet module that will manage the configuration of a NetApp filer. Operating Systems/Applications.

Vmware 110

Vmware Storage Virtualization Network 110

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Of the (innumerable) articles commenting on the hardware hack, this article by Joe FitzPatrick and this ErrataSec article caught my eye. Operating Systems/Applications.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60