Scott Lowe

MARCH 19, 2013

Even though that book hasn’t sold as many units as the Mastering books, it’s a work of which I’m equally proud. In addition to discussing design topics like management, storage, networking, and security, Kendrick contributed content around design considerations for vCloud Director. Announcing VMware vSphere Design.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Ronald de Jong takes readers through using the migration coordinator to migrate from NSX-v (NSX for vSphere) to NSX-T. There’s a security vulnerability , so don’t let your smart home get hacked. I recently found this page , and thought it was a great idea—trying to bring improved security to the masses.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

This is an interesting approach that, honestly, I hadn’t considered. Note that this page doesn’t seem to render properly in Firefox, although Chrome and Safari seem fine.). Speaking of JWTs: they don’t score so well in Thomas Ptacek’s survey of API tokens. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. Hmm…I didn’t find anything again this time around. beta version of containerD (see this post by Docker , or visit the GitHub page for the cri-containerd plugin ). Virtualization. Servers/Hardware.

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Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

and their product (VirTool Network Analyzer) is aimed at providing some operational visibility into OpenStack virtual networks. Ajay Chenampara (also with Network2Code) has a good post on lessons learned from interacting with NETCONF and YANG (key lesson: there’s two ways to use NETCONF, and one of them doesn’t involve YANG).

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Storage Vmware Load Balancer Network 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

I can’t help but wonder if this is the right level at which to put the abstraction layer. For those customers who won’t use a cloud management platform, I would then ask: will they benefit from a CPAL? Don’t think this “software-defined networking” thing is going to take off? Servers/Hardware.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Previous Technology Short Takes have mentioned CoreOS and Kubernetes in the same sentence, but as far as I can tell I haven’t pointed readers to this two part series on running Kubernetes directly on CoreOS. I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This year at VMworld, I wasn’t in any of the breakout sessions because employees aren’t allowed to register for breakout sessions in advance; we have to wait in the standby line to see if we can get in at the last minute. Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2014

Wine tours (Crystal’s still sorting details on this one, so tickets aren’t available yet—but check back often!). The Virtualization Practice. Drop me an e-mail (see my About page ) and I’ll get you connected with more information. Virtualization VMware VMworld2014' Mission Street food tour.

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Vmware Conference Virtualization HP 75

Scott Lowe

JULY 18, 2014

Sometimes, rebooting the guest would work; many times, rebooting the guest didn’t work. Re-installing the guest sometimes worked, but sometimes it didn’t. There didn’t appear to be any consistency with regard to the host (the issue occurred on all hosts) or guest configuration. Linux Virtualization KVM'

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Linux Virtualization Dell Education 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

My entire first week was taken up by new hire onboarding and some training on Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). Some of them I can’t discuss right now (naturally), but I can mention the joint session proposal I helped create for the April OpenStack Summit. Storage Integration Presentation from East TN VMUG.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 16, 2013

This isn’t an analysis of VMware’s sales or market share. This is a practical look at innovation and what happens when companies quickly grows and can’t continue to innovate in ways that keeps their customers asking them to take more of their money. VMware hasn’t had a death ear. A Cloud company?

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Vmware Licensing Virtualization Enterprise 85

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The reason I haven’t generated any new content is because all my spare time is taken up with preparing to migrate this site to a new hosting platform. Sometime over the holiday season, I’ll be migrating this site from a hosted WordPress installation to Jekyll running on GitHub Pages. Thanks for reading!

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Mobile Storage Virtualization Enterprise 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Linux containers are getting a fair amount of attention these days (perhaps due to Docker , which leverages LXC on the back-end) as a lightweight alternative to full machine virtualization such as that provided by “traditional” hypervisors like KVM, Xen, or ESXi.

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Linux Virtualization Operating Systems Architecture 96

Scott Lowe

MAY 1, 2013

She’s also had activities at EMC World (2011 and 2012), HP Discover EMEA , and Dell Storage Forum in Boston. For the partner traveling with the attendee, you don’t have to worry about being alone, finding your way around town, or bothering your partner at the conference. Spousetivities at IBM Edge 2013.

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IBM Conference HP Dell 112

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

One of the cool things about libvirt is the ability to work with multiple hypervisors and virtualization technologies, including Linux containers using LXC. If you aren’t familiar with Linux containers and LXC, I invite you to have a look at my introductory post on Linux containers and LXC. Define the libvirt container domain.

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Linux Virtualization Network Examples 65

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 23, 2013

I wish there was a more platform-independent method, but as yet I haven’t found a good solution. Once I’ve saved a page for future use, then we move into the organization layer. When I save a web page that I’m planning on including in a TST article, I generally save it, by default, to the Desktop.

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Tools Storage Virtualization Groups 106

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 16, 2013

too, but I haven’t tested them.). The process for rebuilding a source RPM isn’t too terribly difficult, assuming that you can get the dependencies worked out. The CentOS wiki has a great page for how to set up an RPM build environment. Linux Virtualization CentOS CLI OSS' Create the Build Environment.

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Virtualization Linux System How To 106

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Derek Seaman: VMworld 2012 – Virtualizing SQL Server 2012 APP-BCA1516. Derek Seaman: VMworld 2012 – Securing the Virtual Environment, How to Defend the Enterprise OPS-CSM1209. Derek Seaman: VMworld – Architecting Storage DRS Clusters INF-STO1545. Virtualization VMware VMworld2012' A VMworld 2012 Wrap-Up.

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Vmware Virtualization Conference Hardware 107

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 22, 2013

Don’t worry—I’ll tie it into something else very soon. The information in this post is based on information found in two other very helpful pages: Using Mock to test package builds. I haven’t tested it on other RHEL variants or other versions, so keep that in mind. for use with CentOS 6.3.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Do you want to build a website, but don’t know where to start? How much storage for backups do they provide? You also don’t want a host that only does one day of backups only to discover that the only backup that exists is a hacked and vulnerable version of your website. Virtual Private Server.

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Backup Resources Security Virtualization 103

The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 3, 2018

We can’t pick up an industry magazine, attend a conference, or even talk with a vendor without being bombarded with cloud-related discussions talking about how it relates to the importance of information technology. How should CIOs be thinking about cloud computing? Image Credit: JD Hancock. Benefits Of The Cloud.

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Cloud Data Center Applications Data 147

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

This page has a list of ways to exploit (or hack) macOS. This is something I’ve been considering for my own site, but just haven’t taken the time to really dig in. If you use the AWS CLI but haven’t read this post by Eric Hammond yet, you are doing yourself a disservice. Virtualization.

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Load Balancer Operating Systems Intel Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 13, 2014

If you visit the official Synergy page , you’ll note that the site indicates that full Mavericks support is still pending. I didn’t include a link here because the link changes as the version changes, so the link would become stale rather quickly.) It doesn’t really matter where, just make note of the location.

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Storage Windows Virtualization Examples 63

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 22, 2013

The information in this post is based on information found in two other very helpful pages: Using Mock to test package builds. I haven’t tested it on other RHEL variants or other versions, so keep that in mind. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Linux Groups Tools Storage 104

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 14, 2013

Among IT pros, it’s quite common these days to have a home lab/home network complete with DNS, DHCP, hypervisors, storage, etc. As IT pros, it’s also quite common to have to use a virtual private network (VPN) solution to connect back to our employers’ corporate networks in order to get work done.

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Network Linux System Windows 61

Scott Lowe

APRIL 28, 2014

If you haven’t been keeping up with the Learning NVP/NSX series, you’ll probably want to go back and catch up. Links to all the articles are found on my Learning NVP/NSX page. Edit the attachment of the logical switch ports to connect a VM’s virtual network interface card (NIC).

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Network Vmware .Net Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 1, 2014

CoreOS, in case you haven’t heard of it, is a highly streamlined Linux distribution designed with containers, massive server deployments, and distributed systems/applications in mind. See this page for more information on clustering with CoreOS and fleet. I’ll do my best to satisfy your requests! Docker Making Its Move.

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Linux Applications Open Source System 89

Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2014

In case you’re just now catching up on this blog series, I encourage you to visit my Learning NVP/NSX page , which has a brief summary of all the posts in the series. You won’t need the OVS agent on the hypervisors, because the NSX controllers are responsible for configuring/programming OVS on transport nodes.

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Vmware Network Linux Virtualization 69

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Using your Home Server for more than Storage, Backup and Remote Access. Of course I ran everything out of my house, why wouldn’t I? Being offline my server started sending NDRs and I didn’t have access to anything, as it was all offline. I didn’t even give this user remote access. Enter Cloud computing.

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Small Business Windows SMB Backup 59

Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

If you abandon your email account, it can’t learn your preferences with new spam so you end up with some in your inbox. o) At this point you need to prove ownership of this domain name and you get a page that walks you through all the settings you need to configure in your DNS provider’s website. :o)

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How To Windows SMB Backup 75

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2011

networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” Relative Duty Cycle Displacement (t). Unfortunately, many of the same agencies aren't actually implementing the appropriate operational or economic model.

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Cloud Resources Government Study 167

Sean Daniel

JUNE 17, 2011

I believe the best path to success for you is to have your domain with one of our domain partners, because the alerts are integrated, and the solution is simple to set up, and you don’t need any additional components like 3 rd party Dynamic DNS clients or static IP addresses from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Contoso.com.

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How To Windows SMB Small Business 63

Sean Daniel

JANUARY 3, 2012

But without a compatible AirPrint printer, you can’t print from the iPad… Or can’t you? There was an old version that doesn’t work with iOS5 that is free. But obviously, I have iOS5 on all my devices, so that wasn’t an option. However, it didn’t initially work.

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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. Guess what: this isn’t Hogwarts and you’re not Harry Potter.

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Linux Academy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

We’ve updated our quiz pages with more information, and changed their layout to look more like the rest of our platform! Here are some of the most recent quizzes you can use to check out the updates: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) AWS . Configuring Azure Storage for Backups . Securing a Virtual Network with Azure Firewall .

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Linux Disaster Recovery Course Firewall 13

Sean Daniel

MARCH 31, 2011

Windows Home Server 2011 has been announced as reaching RTM , and you’re excited because you took the time to download to evaluate the final release version of Windows Home Server 2011 , and even though Microsoft told you not to install it in production, you did anyways, because rules really aren’t your thing.

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