Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2019

This year VMworld —VMware’s annual user conference—moves back to San Francisco from Las Vegas. Better get your tickets sooner rather than later, there’s quite a good chance these activities will sell out! Remember that although it’s called “Spousetivities,” anyone is welcome!

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

See this page for instructions on how to enable BBR on Debian 10. I like the author’s focus on keeping the discussion positive. There’s a fair chance you may not have had the opportunity to work with the kubectl patch command, but never fear: Matt Bargenquast has you covered. And that’s a wrap!

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Scott Lowe

JULY 21, 2014

Although registration is opening a bit later than usual this year (Crystal’s been sick and in the hospital recently), registration for Spousetivities at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco is now open. Wine tours (Crystal’s still sorting details on this one, so tickets aren’t available yet—but check back often!).

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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. Arthur Chiao’s post on cracking kube-proxy is also an excellent resource—in fact, there’s so much information packed in there you may need to read it more than once. Networking. Start here. Version 3.8.0

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

That’s right, it’s time for yet another collection of links and articles from around the Internet on various data center-related technologies, products, projects, and efforts. Kevin Houston’s recent article on selecting the right memory for your blade server is one such example. Here’s one such example.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 23, 2020

The “TL;DR” is the Vagrant can offer users a consistent workflow to creating and destroying VMs across a fairly wide number of platforms, including both local providers (like VirtualBox or VMware Fusion/VMware Workstation) and cloud provider (such as AWS and Azure). If you are using Vagrant 2.2

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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. Examining OpenStack Neutron Components.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 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. Derek Seaman had a lot more posts; just check out this page for a full list. Vladan Seget: Top VMware vSphere 5.1

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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. Edit the attachment of the logical switch ports to connect a VM’s virtual network interface card (NIC).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Here’s hoping you find something useful! I saw a demo of the product—it looks quite handy, and provides a pretty fair amount of information to help operators figure out what’s happening “under the covers.” There’s a ton of information in this series! Networking. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Here’s a handy tutorial on using Docker for persisting state across AWS Spot Instances. Here’s another one. beta version of containerD (see this post by Docker , or visit the GitHub page for the cri-containerd plugin ). Here’s an example of using Ansible to setup an environment in OpenBSD.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

It’s been quite a while (over a month) since the last Tech Short Take, as this one kept getting pushed back. Google’s Project Zero team posted an update on finding and exploiting Safari bugs using publicly available tools. This page has a list of ways to exploit (or hack) macOS. OK, that’s all I have for now.

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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. Configure VMware NSX for Neutron.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

With the help of our reader’s submissions and recommendations from our BestItBlog.net directory, we’ve compiled a list of some of our top favorite IT Blogs, across various technology industries. It focuses on all of the latest developments in Google’s security world. Our Information Technology Blog Picks.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The Intel hardware virtualization assists (things like Extended Page Tables, large VT-d page support, reduced context switch latency) also greatly improve with the virtualization of communications-related infrastructure. EPT and VT-d large page support are particularly important.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

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). Here’s a couple ( first one , second one ) of quick walk-throughs on installing OpenStack.

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Cloud Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In full alignment with The Federal Cloud Computing Strategy , the Federal CIO’s 25-Point Federal IT Reform Plan and NIST’s Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap , this site will provide a community hub for information dissemination and GovCloud best practices. Popular Pages. Cloud Musings by Kevin L. GovCloud Daily.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

With the help of our reader’s submissions and recommendations from our BestItBlog.net directory, we’ve compiled a list of some of our top favorite Tech Blogs, across various technology industries. It focuses on all of the latest developments in Google’s security world. Our Tech Blog Picks. Google Online Security Blog.

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Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

With the help of our reader’s submissions and recommendations from our BestItBlog.net directory, we’ve compiled a list of some of our top favorite Tech Blogs, across various technology industries. It focuses on all of the latest developments in Google’s security world. Our Tech Blog Picks. Google Online Security Blog.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

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

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

With the help of our reader’s submissions and recommendations from our BestItBlog.net directory, we’ve compiled a list of some of our top favorite Tech Websites and Blogs, across various technology industries. It focuses on all of the latest developments in Google’s security world. Our Top Tech Website Picks.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

With the help of our reader’s submissions and recommendations from our BestItBlog.net directory, we’ve compiled a list of some of our top favorite IT Blogs, across various technology industries. It focuses on all of the latest developments in Google’s security world. Our Information Technology Blog Picks.

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Cloud Musings

JANUARY 18, 2011

For those not familiar with The Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE) , it was formed by Cisco and EMC, with investments from VMware and Intel, to accelerate the adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models. Popular Pages. GEOINT's Future is in the Cloud. Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Kevin L. .

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Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

When I worked at VMware, one of the questions we often (always?) Inventorying the data center(s) are actually the first step in the process. Increasing your web traffic and page views Add , add your website in www.itsolusenz.com. . Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud appl. Ken Oestreich. ► August. (2).

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Equally handy, when you’re done with the instance(s) created by Vagrant, a simple vagrant destroy will clean it all up. LTS, KVM hypervisors, and VMware NSX for networking. First, install the OpenStack provider plugin (obviously, this only needs to be done once): vagrant plugin install vagrant-openstack-provider. How’s that for handy?

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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

Ars Technica has a write-up on what’s been observed so far. In this post , Piotr talks about the “next big shift” in infrastructure as code, but what he’s really discussing is Crossplane. I was recently digging into OpenTelemtry a little bit and found this page helpful (among several others on this site).

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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

Here’s hoping you find something useful! Anthony Burke’s series on VMware NSX continues with part 5. I can’t imagine that anyone has been immune to the onslaught of information on Docker, but here’s an article that might be helpful if you’re still looking for a quick and practical introduction.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

That’s exactly what we have here: a Microsoft Azure page with instructions on configuring DHCPv6 for Linux VMs (covering various Linux distributions). William Lam shares his adventure(s) in testing a USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 adapter for ESXi. Virtualization. x environment.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I think that’s the point Ivan tried to make as well—it’s the architecture and how OpenFlow is used that makes a difference. (Is Case in point: here’s a post on using OVS to connect LXC containers running on different hosts via GRE tunnels. That’s kind of cool. Great job, Brad. Virtualization.

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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). Of course, it would probably be helpful to read the entire series; links to all posts can be found on the Learning NVP/NSX page.

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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. Let’s start with a very quick review.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 3, 2011

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. Things like what operating system an application used no longer mattered – you could mix and match to your heart’s content.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 11, 2019

One area where I do strongly agree with Niran is in switching your perspective: looking at service mesh from a developer’s perspective gives one quite a different viewpoint than viewing service mesh in an infrastructure light. Here’s an interesting look at using the HashiCorp stack on your home network. OS/2 lives on.

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Scott Lowe

JULY 16, 2014

If you haven’t read any of the prior posts in this series, it would be ideal to read all of them before continuing; you can find links on my Learning NVP/NSX page. Each of these logical routers acts as an IP gateway (default gateway/default route) for the associated (or connected) logical network(s).

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Reminder: NVP’s core components are much the same as NSX’s core components in multi-hypervisor environments.). Before I start, I think it’s important to distinguish between a gateway appliance and a gateway service. That’s it—you’re done!

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