Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Personally, I think it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since Kubernetes is more than just a scheduler (think about replication controllers and services and such), but to each his own.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

If you like geeking out over the hardware side of networking, you may find this Ars Technica article on the physical infrastructure of the global Internet to be an interesting read. (I Servers/Hardware. I enjoyed Adam Leventhal’s evaluation of APFS , the new file system announced at the most recent Apple WWDC. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Servers/Hardware. There was a fair amount of wailing and gnashing of teeth when Apple updated the MacBook Pro line with the Touch Bar. Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Sam McGeown discusses deploying ECMP with NSX for a provider logical router.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Servers/Hardware. We all know that security is more than just a host-based firewall, but a host-based firewall can be part of an overall security strategy. This article provides a good introductory overview of Linux iptables commands for configuring host-based firewall rules on your Linux systems. on an Apple Xserve 3,1.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Fathi re-emphasizes that VMware’s SDDC vision is an architecture, one built on the “power of AND.” ” vCloud Suite (and vCloud Air) is a manifestation of the SDDC vision/architecture. VMware’s SDDC vision/architecture delivers the power of “AND.” betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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