Scott Lowe

JANUARY 10, 2016

I’m extremely honored to have the opportunity to help support VMware User Group (VMUG) meetings all over the world. I will be speaking at a few upcoming events; if you’re going to be at one of these events, I’d love to meet you, say hi, and chat for a bit. Here are the details. Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Thursday, February 25, 2016.

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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. As I have in years past, I also posted a few liveblogs where possible. Keith Townsend: VMworld session review – NET2207, VMware vSphere Distributed Switch Technical Deep Dive. Liveblogging Posts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2024

Before I get to why, what even is a “cloud native platform”? No matter how good at software my favorite fried chicken restaurant is, if I order some Korean fried chicken, I want to find some fried chicken and fried cauliflower in the box, not software. There used to be a quip that “all companies are software companies now.”

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 10, 2016

I’m extremely honored to have the opportunity to help support VMware User Group (VMUG) meetings all over the world. I will be speaking at a few upcoming events; if you’re going to be at one of these events, I’d love to meet you, say hi, and chat for a bit. Here are the details. Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Thursday, February 25, 2016.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

I’ve still been collecting links to share with you, though, and here’s the latest collection. I hope you’re able to find something useful here! I, personally, would posit that Linux can be more secure than other platforms, but it requires proper configuration and can still be undone by a loose nut behind the keyboard.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

At DevOps Networking Forum 2016, I had the opportunity to share a presentation on some Linux networking options. I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Sorry, I don’t have anything for you this time. Have fun reading!

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

If you’re going to be in Barcelona for either VMworld EMEA (running the week of October 17) or the fall 2016 OpenStack Summit (running the week of October 24), then I recommend you plan for your spouse/partner/girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever to join you for what I believe are some pretty spectacular Spousetivities. VMworld EMEA.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 12, 2014

Welcome to part 11 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I provide a high-level overview of the basics on integrating VMware NSX into an OpenStack deployment using OpenStack Neutron. VMware NSX was designed to be integrated into a cloud management platform. Reviewing OpenStack Neutron With NSX.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

This article is a bit more OpenStack-focused, but given that it focuses pretty heavily on Neutron I thought it’d fit better here in the “Networking” section. Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? This looks neat—I need to try to find time to give it a spin. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

As always, there is no rhyme or reason to my collection; this is just a glimpse into what I’ve seen over the past few weeks. I hope you are able to glean something useful. This is a really useful post and I’m looking forward to future posts in this series. ” I highly encourage reading this article.

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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. Links to all the articles are found on my Learning NVP/NSX page. These three steps will establish a simple logical network within VMware NSX.

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 12, 2015

Obviously, I’ve already adopted podcasting. I’ve settled on a 3 episode a week release schedule. I think there are topics best served by long form text. I'm shifting to a living page format that is more of a running blog post that changes as my information and the industry changes. However, I'll be adjusting.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2014

VMware NSX. Drop me an e-mail (see my About page ) and I’ll get you connected with more information. Virtualization VMware VMworld2014' This year, VMworld’s first and only community-driven and community-focused spouse activities are brought to you by these sponsors: Origami Owl. Wine Shop at Home.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 28, 2016

Helping to keep the costs down on the activities are the Spousetivities sponsors, which this year include VMware NSX , The Virtualization Practice , VMUG , and Veeam. If you’re interested in getting signed up, please head over to the VMworld 2016 Spousetivities registration page.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

I have a mix of newer and older items for you this time around. While I’m a bit short on links in some areas, hopefully this is outweighed by some good content in other areas. I’m looking forward to future chapters in this series. Welcome to Technology Short Take #87! Here’s hoping you find something useful!

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 14, 2017

This page provides insight in to Converged Infrastructure (CI), Cluster in box or Cloud in Box (CIB) along with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) topics along with links to companion resources. The post Server Storage I/O Converged (CI) Hyper-converged (HCI) overview appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

I have a collection of newer materials and some older materials this time around, but hopefully all of them are still useful. (I I needed to do some housekeeping on my Instapaper account, which is where I bookmark stuff that frequently lands here.) Hmm…I didn’t find anything again this time around.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

This post is a week late (I try to publish these every other Friday), so my apologies for the delay. Sorry, I don’t have anything this time around. In this respect, it seems similar to HexaTier , a company I spoke with last year (as of this writing, the HexaTier product was no longer available per their website). Networking.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

For the security appliance, all traffic is actually intercepted by the hypervisor, which will generate context switches for every I/O packet received. These challenges can be summarized as: I/O-intensive application virtualization. EPT and VT-d large page support are particularly important. This will drive down performance.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Hopefully I’ve still managed to find useful and helpful links to include below. This page has a list of ways to exploit (or hack) macOS. I share this not to encourage illegal activities, but instead to point out that no operating system is secure, so be alert at all times and use good computing practices regardless of your OS.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Welcome to Technology Short Take #39, in which I share a random assortment of links, articles, and thoughts from around the world of data center-related technologies. I hope you find something useful—or at least something interesting! I can’t help but wonder if this is the right level at which to put the abstraction layer.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 25, 2014

Welcome to part 12 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I continue the discussion around integration between OpenStack and VMware NSX, and in which I’ll provide more details about how exactly to integrate them. The basic steps look like this: Install the VMware NSX plugin for Neutron.

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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. Here’s the write-up on some of the vendor meetings I’ve attended while in San Francisco.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Google is racing to build out its gen AI platform; co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have even come out of semi-retirement to jumpstart the Google AI initiative. I would suspect that prices will creep up over the next several years.”

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In my earlier post on using Docker Machine with OpenStack, I talked about combining technologies in a “provider/consumer” model. If you’re unfamiliar with Vagrant, I recommend you first read this introduction to Vagrant (after that you can dig into all the other Vagrant-tagged posts ). I was using version 0.7.0 More Details.

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Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction. Or am I missing something? When I worked at VMware, one of the questions we often (always?) heard from customers is "What should I virtualize?" Fountainhead. Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Ken Oestreich.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week I had the awesome experience of participating in a global telepresence conference on government cloud computing. Popular Pages. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. Kevin L.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I won’t steal Matt’s thunder; go have a look at the post yourself to see if you agree with his assessment. Thanks to Ivan Pepelnjak, I saw this network diagnostic tool. That’s exactly what we have here: a Microsoft Azure page with instructions on configuring DHCPv6 for Linux VMs (covering various Linux distributions).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Mirantis, a company that “delivers OpenStack cloud and open source application infrastructure” (taken from their About page ), recently posted a blog entry about how accepting VMware as an OpenStack Foundation gold member was a mistake. Well, I do think that Mirantis author is wrong, but I’m not here to defend VMware.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I’ll have one more Technology Short Take in 2021, scheduled for three weeks from now (on the last day of the year!). For now, though, I have a small collection of articles and links for your reading pleasure—not as many as I usually include in a Technology Short Take, but better than nothing at all (I hope!).

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 20, 2014

Welcome to part 14 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I discuss the ability for VMware NSX to do Layer 3 routing in logical networks. This post will also include a look at a very cool feature within VMware NSX known as distributed logical routing. Overview of Logical Routing. Components of Logical Routing.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 11, 2014

Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. Bob McCouch has a post over at Network Computing (where I’ve recently started blogging as well—see my first post ) discussing his view on how software-defined networking (SDN) will trickle down to small and mid-sized businesses. I don’t know.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

As always, I hope you find something useful here. Looks like this is another tool I need to add to my toolbox as I continue to explore networking technologies like OpenFlow, Open vSwitch, and others. I’m a CLI fan, so I like this sort of stuff. Networking. Who out there has played around with Mininet yet?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 13, 2014

This is part 16 of the Learning NSX series, in which I will show you how to configure VMware NSX to route to multiple external VLANs. Naturally, this post builds on all the previous entries in this series, so I encourage you to visit the Learning NVP/NSX page for links to previous posts. Click here for a larger version.).

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

This is part 18 of the Learning NSX blog series, in which I talk about using layer 3 (L3) routing with VMware NSX but without network address translation (NAT). In part 6 , I showed you how to add a gateway appliance to your NSX installation. In part 6 , I showed you how to add a gateway appliance to your NSX installation.

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Network Vmware Virtualization Cloud 77

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 11, 2019

It may be confirmation bias, but I’ve noticed of number of sites adding “Short Take”-type posts to their content lineup. I’ll take that as flattery, even if it wasn’t necessary intended that way. While I get what Niran is trying to say here, I’m not so sure I agree with the analogy.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 16, 2014

This is part 15 of my Learning NSX blog series, in which I will spend some time diving a bit deeper into some of the components involved in the logical routing process I described in part 14. I’ll do my best to make sure that I’m clearly distinguishing between these ambiguous uses.

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