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. . What is Virtualization? There are two methods of running virtualized software.

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Network World

MARCH 20, 2017

Two teams of researchers managed to win the biggest bounties at this year's Pwn2Own hacking contest by escaping from the VMware Workstation virtual machine and executing code on the host operating system. That's why VM escape exploits are highly prized, more so than browser or OS exploits.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn’t made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install. VMWare Fushion. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to OEMs,” says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

The system can be centrally managed via Cisco’s cloud-based Intersight management platform, and it supports Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and VMware vSphere hypervisors. Customers can now integrate ACI and Nutanix AHV, the vendor’s hypervisor that lets customers to run multiple virtual machines on a single physical server.

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Virtualized Greek

MARCH 26, 2013

Mirantis, a large OpenStack consulting organization, announced that PayPal will be rolling 10,000 nodes running some variant of OpenStack “Cloud Operating System” They look to have a total of 80,000 nodes managed by OpenStack at the end of the Cloud deployment. Cloud Computing Virtualization OpenStack VMWare'

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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. Add to it the vSphere suite and it’s pretty difficult to find a better virtualization solution. This is where I believe VMware is having difficulty in their vision.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Operating Systems/Applications Decisions, decisions— which immutable Linux to use ? Virtualization Allen from Humbled Geeks shows how to create a VMware vSwitch using Ansible. Þórarinn Sigurðsson talks about Garden’s plugin for Pulumi. That’s all for this time!

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Fountainhead

MARCH 18, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Two recent announcements lead me to making an interesting business strategy observation about two opposing approaches to dominating these markets: VMwares recent announcement that it intends to venture into the public cloud ( assessment courtesy of James Staten ).

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This blog series introduces you to Windows® Operating System (OS) optimizations, starting with version 1903. Hopefully, these optimizations will be just as good to administrators of physical machines as to a virtual environment utilizing Nutanix Frame®, Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops, or VMware Horizon®.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

Sure Virtualization Seems Neat In The Beginning, But…. To read the IT trade journals or speak with CIOs you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. Virtualization has its own set of problems and we need to have a talk….

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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. Basically, the statement was that it was possible to create do-it-yourself network virtualization. What are the core components of a network virtualization solution?

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

Ivan Velichko takes readers on a journey of how Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines (in a good sense). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. 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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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. Kurt Roekle takes a second look at combining Open Policy Agent with Kong Mesh , looking at the potential benefits offered by including Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS).

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This means that the drives should be transparent to the operating systems or hypervisors on servers or storage controllers without need for special adapters, controller cards or drivers.

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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. Operating Systems/Applications. JJ Asghar takes a look at using VMware Photon OS as the backend Docker host OS for use with test-kitchen.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Anthony Burke has written a script that uses VMware NSX to protect VMware Log Insight instances. The first article provides a blueprint for migrating applications to VMware NSX ; the second article supplies some tips for creating filtering policies in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

I am thinking that maybe 2013 will finally be the year of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) enabled BYOD. This is not because of some fancy new feature in VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop but due to a new feature of Windows 8. This means that basically, just like Hyper-V the hypervisor is native to the operating system.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 24, 2022

Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Here’s Chris Evans’ take on the Broadcom acquisition of VMware. Colin shares a critical learning item on using Terraform with VMware ESXi. I recently learned that you can modify macOS’ PAM configuration to use Touch ID for sudo. That’s handy.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

network virtualization). Is the relationship between network virtualization and service mesh closer than some folks might wish to admit? Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. The state of virtualization on Apple Silicon hardware has seen a few developments in recent days and weeks. Programming.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Apparently due to the way the integration between Antrea and VMware NSX was designed, it’s possible for “stale” Antrea-enabled clusters (clusters that once existed but are no longer present/valid) to show up in the NSX UI. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Curious about what a JWT is?

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Eric Sloof drew my attention to a VMware white paper on paravirtual RDMA devices on vSphere. In the event you missed this in the barrage of AWS re:Invent announcements, I thought it was worth pointing out that you can now use Amazon ECR Public to get Docker Official images.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 3, 2019

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. Virtualization. Start with part 1, which is here.

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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. Adrian Roberts shares a walkthrough of running Photon OS and VMware Admiral in a vCloud Air Network environment.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is pretty cool: a WYSIWYG topology designer for VMware NSX. 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. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 3, 2016

The examples Phil uses include StackWise, Virtual Switching System, and Virtual Port Channels. Carlos Cardenas has a great post that does a great job of explaining SAI (Switch Abstraction Interface) and switchdev , two key abstraction layers involved in building Linux-based network operating systems (NOSes).

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Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Operating Systems/Applications. Seriously.). Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It was, therefore, very satisfying to see not one but two Velero-related posts emerge recently from the VMware blogging community. Operating Systems/Applications I started being a fan of Basic Apple Guy a while ago, and I use some of his wallpapers on my Mac and my mobile devices. (I’m

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

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. Virtualization. For those of us in the IT field, we are definitely living in interesting times.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 8, 2016

This is an interesting project to watch, I think—it’s porting OVN (Open Virtual Network) from a “traditional” OvS back-end to an IOVisor-based back-end (IOVisor implements the data plane in eBPF). Blueprints that demonstrate VMware-Chef integration. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. on Ubuntu 16.04.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. At least, I hope so.)

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2013

A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Here’s a good source.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 4, 2013

For example, a question I get all the time is “Have I missed the boat on VMware?” vSphere is the best overall technical solution for virtualized environments – today. But, just as Novell was the best network operating system in the late 90’s/00’s, timing is everything. General Cisco OpenStack SDN VMWare'

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Eric Sloof has a link to a white paper from VMware on host power management in vSphere 7.0. Kurt Roekle takes a second look at combining Open Policy Agent with Kong Mesh , looking at the potential benefits offered by including Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS).

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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). Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Bruce Davie and Martin Casado (with Nicira, now part of VMware) have written a post comparing the VXLAN and STT tunneling protocols. Operating Systems/Applications. I found this article on imperative vs. declarative system configuration is quite helpful in understanding Puppet’s declarative model. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 28, 2022

William Lam writes about the beta for VMware Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Tiago Sousa writes about Amplemarket’s use of Pulumi to deal with growing pains. Daniel Karnutsch shares an ideal Azure Kubernetes Cluster configuration. Got (or getting) a new Mac?

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