Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. AlgoSec has a couple of articles published last year before VMworld 2015, but I just now came across them. Servers/Hardware. Drew Conry-Murray shines a light on Intel’s network ambitions. Virtualization.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 6, 2015

This is the first Technology Short Take for 2015 and the first to be published on the new blog platform. Michael Webster isn’t a name that normally pops up here in the Networking section of my Technology Short Takes, but he recently wrote an article on installing Cumulus Linux from a MacBook Pro that I thought might be handy.

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Linux Dell Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 17, 2015

This will be the last Technology Short Take of 2015, as next week is Christmas and the following week is the New Year’s holiday. If you’d like to play around with Cumulus Linux but don’t have a compatible hardware switch, Cumulus VX is the answer. Welcome to Technology Short Take #58. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Why, yes, thanks.

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Vmware Linux Architecture Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. The Windows architecture is so dramatically different from UNIX/Linux that trying to adapt per-process containers is quite naturally going to be more than a little bit challenging.

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Windows Firewall Linux Architecture 60

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.” Next year and in 2015, you can expect Intel to leverage the Haswell microarchitecture to refresh this platform.

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Intel Architecture Virtualization Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Recep talks about how the predominant architecture for network virtualization involves the use of overlay networks created and managed at the edge by virtual switches in the hypervisors. In summary, the goal of SDN/NFV is to enable architectural transformation that moves from dedicated hardware appliances to software running on x86 servers.

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Intel Load Balancer Architecture Virtualization 61

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

I highly recommend you read the entire post, but in short the five skills Matt recommends are software skills (which includes configuration management and software development tools like Git ), Linux, deep protocol knowledge, hypervisor and container networking, and IPv6. NixOS seems to be an interesting re-think of a Linux distribution.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60