Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Fall 2013 StorageIO Update Newsletter Welcome to the Fall 2013 (joint September and October) edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

Summer 2013 News letter Welcome to the Summer 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. Welcome to the Summer 2013 (combined July and August) edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics.

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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. This year, she’s added another conference: IBM Edge 2013 in Las Vegas! IBM Edge 2013 (conference site here ) runs from June 10–14 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Spousetivities at IBM Edge 2013.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

November 2013 Server and StorageIO Update Newsletter Welcome to the November 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update (newsletter) containing trends perspectives on cloud, virtualization and data infrastructure topics.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) […].

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2013

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at VMworld 2013 in San Francisco. Depending on network connectivity, I may or may not be able to update this post in real-time. Supposedly there are more than 22,000 people in attendance at VMworld 2013, making it—according to Carl—the largest IT infrastructure event.

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 24, 2013

June 2013 News letter Welcome to the June 2013 edition of the StorageIO Update. Other items include backup and data protection topics for SMBs, as well as big data storage topics. [.].

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote for VMworld 2013. Depending on network connectivity, this might not get published until after the keynote is finished. This leads to a talk about VMware’s 10 years of innovation, with products and features like ESX, vMotion, DRS, Storage vMotion, and more. and vCloud Suite 5.5.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Trying to kill time on the plane on my way to VMworld 2013; my mind got to wondering what VMware needs to show at VMworld 2013 in order to maintain their position within the enterprise. They also have some great competition within their main space – Server Virtualization. VMware has some great technology.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Finally, in early January 2013 I graded myself on my progress on my 2012 goals. In this post, I’d like to take lessons learned from my 2012 projects and apply them toward my list of 2013 projects. Expand and deepen data center networking fundamentals. So, that’s my list of 2013 projects.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This is a liveblog of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 session EDCS003, titled “Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud.” Gopal now takes over and moves the discussion into storage in OpenStack. At this point, Gopal transitions to networking in OpenStack.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

Dell Inspiron 660 i660, Virtual Server Diamond in the rough? During the 2013 post thanksgiving black friday shopping day, I did some on-line buying including a Dell Inspiron 660 i660 (5629BK) to be used as a physical machine (PM) or VMware host (among other things). Now technically I know, this is a workstation or desktop […].

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 3, 2014

For example, I shared my 2012 project list in early January 2012, then gave myself grades on my progress in early January 2013. In this post, I’m going to grade myself on my 2013 project list. Reinforce data center networking fundamentals. Looking Back: 2013 Project Report Card. Looking Ahead: My 2013 Projects.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 26, 2013

His basic answer was Virtualization and Virtualization Administrators. Specifically, the theme seemed to try to move past x86 virtualization and into Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). One is virtual disk size limitation. VMware has increased the virtual disk size limit from 2TB to 32TB. Virtual Data Plane.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2013

By Bob Gourley Announces Acquisition of Sandboxie to Expand Global Reach, Small Business Footprint and Consolidate the Two Leading Brands in Burgeoning Virtualized Containment Solutions Market. FAIRFAX, VA–(Marketwired – Dec 16, 2013) – Invincea, Inc.,

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Jeda Networks. I’ve mentioned Jeda Networks before (see here ), and I was pretty excited to have the opportunity to sit down with a couple of guys from Jeda to get more details on what they’re doing. Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2014

Here’s a quote from the KB article : The distributed switch network health check, including the VLAN, MTU, and teaming policy check can not function properly when there are hardware virtual NICs on the server platform. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is session COMS003, titled “Enabling Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with the Intel Open Network Platform Server Reference Architecture Design.” This session is slightly related to IDF 2013 session COMS0002 , which focused more on the Intel ONP Switch reference design.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2013

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 5, 2013

how each of these components leverages different Linux network namespaces to accomplish their tasks. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Similar Posts: OpenStack Summit 2013: OpenStack High Availability in Grizzly and Beyond.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 6, 2013

I’ve had a few conversations about network virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN) recently (see here and here ) and the amorphous use of the term “software-defined.” Separating the storage control plane from the storage data plane is a much closer storage analogy to SDN, in my opinion.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 25, 2013

As the blog post title indicates, I’m taking on a new set of challenges (and a new set of opportunities) in 2013—and the way to do that is in a new role with a new company. So, effective 2/8/2013, I am leaving EMC Corporation to join the former Nicira group at VMware, working directly for Martin Casado.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 27, 2013

Basically, if the relationship between the server team and networking team is already strained then what impact will NSX have. Scott: Responded by basically saying the political issues will not disappear and the network team has to be involved in the creation of policy for the virtual network. Is it simple or complex?

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. OpenStack Summit 2013: Considerations for Building a Private Cloud, Folsom Update. General Networking Storage Virtualization OpenStack OSS' This article was originally posted on blog.scottlowe.org.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco. Fisher sets the stage for people interacting with multiple devices, and devices that are highly mobile, supported by software and services delivered over a ubiquitous network connection. IDF 2013: Keynote, Day 2.

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 26, 2013

This is your traditional VDI solution that allows you to deliver Windows application to any device via virtualized desktops residing in the data center. Stateless images allow you to save a great deal of storage but limits the user’s ability to customize their environment. This increases the storage and management overhead.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

He starts with the data center, and briefly discusses Intel’s leadership in CPUs (from the low-end with Atom and Avoton to the high-end with Xeon E5), server rack-scale architecture, and software-defined networking. Intel is targeting a sub-$100 system price point for the 2013 holiday season. IDF 2013 Keynote, Day 1.

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Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Introducing a new line of Network Storage Servers for SMB. Only yesterday, a third product that I worked on over the past little while called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials was announced, on hardware provided by Western Digital. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Storage Server Essentials. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 21, 2013

This blog post kicks off a new series of posts describing my journey to become more knowledgeable about the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). A programmable virtual switch: NVP leverages Open vSwitch (OVS), an independent open source project with contributors from across the industry, to fill this role.

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Fountainhead

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Consider the use case to deliver huge numbers of applications and desktops across hundreds, thousands, or tens-of-thousands of mobile clients – Challenging for IT due to configuration, set-up, monitoring, management, network optimization and scaling.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. Virtualization. (31). ► 2013. (10). Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, March 25, 2013. landscape will include many servers (often virtual machines) linked by. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 18, 2012

OVS, of course, is central to the strategy and functionality of several network virtualization players and projects: Nicira. But what organization is going to deploy Fedora 17 to help support an important function like network virtualization? Looking Ahead: My 2013 Projects. Midokura (more information here ).

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Networking. I think this three-part series on new network models for cloud computing ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ), while almost a year old, is quite good. Erik Smith, notably known for his outstanding posts on storage and FCoE, takes a stab at describing some of the differences between SDN and network virtualization in this post.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Networking. Art Fewell takes a deeper look at the increasingly important role of the virtual switch. Even so, this Q&A session with Martin Casado on managing physical and virtual worlds in parallel might be worth going through the hassle. VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. Virtualization.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 14, 2013

The petabytes of content that may consist of video, audio, and images is too large to be moved across your company’s network let alone be backed up. The cost of having to create a backup for your big data that would be virtually unlimited in size much like your big data itself would simply too expensive to do. Dr. Jim Anderson.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Networking. When I joined the NSX team in early 2013, a big topic at that time was overlay protocols (VXLAN, STT, etc.). Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #84!

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