Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. See this page for instructions on how to enable BBR on Debian 10. Servers/Hardware. Edwin Weijdema shares how he uses VMware Fusion 12 on his MacBook Pro (Intel-based, I’m assuming) to run a mobile lab with nested ESXi hypervisors.

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Now that a week or so has passed, I thought I’d post a quick “link review” of VMworld 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.

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Vmware Virtualization Conference Hardware 107

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. These optimizations include things like Data Direct I/O (DDIO), VT-d, QPI, and QuickAssist (this helps with pattern matching, crypto, and compression). EPT and VT-d large page support are particularly important.

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Virtualization Intel Cloud Data 113

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

I’d love to hear others’ thoughts on this. Jointly authored by VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Intel, this new protocol proposal attempts to bring together the strengths of the various network virtualization encapsulation protocols out there today (VXLAN, STT, NVGRE). Servers/Hardware. x86 marches on!

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. This means that page swaps are extremely fast (on the level of microseconds, not the milliseconds typically seen with disks).

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Meeting Storage Hardware Network 63

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Servers/Hardware. beta version of containerD (see this post by Docker , or visit the GitHub page for the cri-containerd plugin ). At their scale—millions of customers—I can see why they’d need to carefully limit how far they push the support boundary.) Perhaps I should remove this section?

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Servers/Hardware. Tom has since moved on to CSC (via the vCHS team at VMware) and has launched a “next-generation” version of Razor called Hanlon. If anyone out there has used it, I’d love to hear your feedback. Networking. Virtualization.

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Vmware Storage Network Virtualization 60