Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

William Lam shares some information on using kube-vip with VMware’s new Tanzu Community Edition (TCE). Operating Systems/Applications. Chris Evans shares his take on VMware’s Project Capitola. Try that new combination of technologies that you think may hold promise for your team or your company.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. the company) has recently announced they’ve added secrets management into Docker Datacenter. Networking. Docker Inc.

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Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I’ve got a wide range of topics for you this time around—eBPF, Falco, Snort, Kyverno, etcd, VMware Code Stream, and more. His recommendations do feel a bit biased (he recommends starting with an API gateway, such as the one his company provides), but it doesn’t mean the recommendations are wrong. Networking.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Along with Docker, VMware worked with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to prepare a security benchmark for Docker 1.6

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 17, 2016

I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Why certain other companies that shall remain unnamed haven’t done something similar is beyond me.). Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2

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Vmware Linux Network Open Source 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Isovalent—the company behind Cilium, the eBPF-powered networking solution for Kubernetes clusters—just launched with a $29M Series A round of funding. Adrian’s operational review readiness template is another great post as well. Operating Systems/Applications. See, something for everyone!

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Linux Vmware Open Source Examples 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

William Lam shares some information on using kube-vip with VMware’s new Tanzu Community Edition (TCE). Operating Systems/Applications. Chris Evans shares his take on VMware’s Project Capitola. Try that new combination of technologies that you think may hold promise for your team or your company.

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Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 4, 2017

Mircea’s right—bugs will happen in all software (VMware NSX has had its share, for example), but the key is in how it’s handled. Doug Youd of Cumulus has an excellent 3-part series on the use of LACP in VMware vSphere environments. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Vmware Storage Network Examples 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Sam McGeown has a nice diagram of the communications channels between the various VMware NSX components. Operating Systems/Applications. Nick Korte shares some “lessons learned” as his team explored VMware vSAN as a storage solution. Michael Wittig shares some details on migrating to Amazon Linux 2.

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Vmware Linux Network Storage 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Clifford Haas has a review of VMware NSX (this is from back in January). VMware recently published a case study describing how Rackspace used VMware NSX to quickly meet new PCI DSS compliance goals. Operating Systems/Applications. Guido Hagemann provides a very thorough article on VMware ESXi claim rules.

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Vmware Case Study Linux Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Fast-forward to this year, and the company announces support for NSX and (more recently) support for Cisco ACI. Christopher Damerau explains how to use Ansible to manage VMware resources. Operating Systems/Applications. I first ran into Forward Networks a few years ago at Fall ONUG in New York.

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Network Resources Devops Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization? Networking.

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 8, 2016

PowerNSX is pretty cool—it’s a set of PowerShell cmdlets for administrators of VMware NSX running in vSphere environments. Cue the round of folks claiming that this is why proprietary network operating systems [NOSes] are the route the networking industry should be taking.). Operating Systems/Applications.

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Vmware Linux Intel Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently announced VSAN 6.2 , and along with the new release is plenty of coverage from the VMware community.

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Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Isovalent—the company behind the Cilium project—has been talking a lot about how the use of eBPF will transform things, including the architecture of a service mesh. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Viktor van den Berg shares his CKAD exam experience and some tips on how to prepare. Programming.

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Virtualization Storage Network Programming 79

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Seems like there’s this company in Palo Alto making a product that handles this issue pretty decently…( hint ). Operating Systems/Applications. Frank Denneman—now back at VMware (welcome back, Frank!)—has has a closer look at VMware Cloud on AWS. Or, if they do, they’re quite expensive.) Career/Soft Skills.

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Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

From the Department of “Sitting in my Inbox for Way Too Long”, I wanted to point out a company that I ran into back in May of this year at the OpenStack Summit in Boston. The company is VirTool Networks (catchy, eh?), Operating Systems/Applications. RIP Solaris. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Galido

MAY 1, 2019

Technology is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. It involves advances in computer technology, machinery, and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge and a branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences. CIO Dashboard. TechCrunch.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Audun Føyen describes how his company settled on the use of kustomize for managing their Kubernetes manifests. Operating Systems/Applications. Mischa Buijs reviews using a SATADOM boot device with VMware ESXi. This blog post outlines some of the changes/new features in kubeadm with the Kubernetes 1.15

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Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Galido

MARCH 22, 2019

Technology is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. It involves advances in computer technology, machinery, and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge and a branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences. CIO Dashboard. TechCrunch.

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Resources Mobile Data Center Security 107

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. I guess this underscores the difficulty for hardware-based companies to shift to a more software-based business. Servers/Hardware.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. Prasenjit Sarkar, who works in VMware R&D, and runs the Stretch Cloud site , has a write-up on using Data Center Extension (DCE) to VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS). Operating Systems/Applications. This looks interesting. Very good stuff!

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Vmware Data Center Storage Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 23, 2017

Cossack Labs recently released Acra , a database encryption suite designed to protect applications against data leaks by providing strong encryption. 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). and vSphere.

Open Source 60

Open Source Storage Vmware Network 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Bahubali (Bill) Shetti walks through analyzing the cost of a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS using VMware CloudHealth. ” Operating Systems/Applications. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Ahmet Alp Balkan does a deep dive on the KUBECONFIG file. Lee Briggs writes about his experience with Fargate.

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Open Source Tools Policies Cloud 60

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Technology is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. It involves advances in computer technology, machinery, and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge and a branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences. CIO Dashboard. TechCrunch.

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Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Crawley: Pen testing is when you simulate cyber attacks, so you're not actually conducting cyber attacks because you have the consent of the owner of the network or the computer application that you're penetration testing, but within the rules that your client has given you. But all these pentesters are inside the company.

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Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Crawley: Pen testing is when you simulate cyber attacks, so you're not actually conducting cyber attacks because you have the consent of the owner of the network or the computer application that you're penetration testing, but within the rules that your client has given you. But all these pentesters are inside the company.

Network 52

Network Applications Security Operating Systems 52

Scott Lowe

JUNE 21, 2019

Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. Operating Systems/Applications. Systango has this high-level overview of serverless application architecture along with some pros/cons, use cases, etc. I haven’t tested it.).

Network 60

Network Load Balancer Storage Applications 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Looking for more VMware NSX content? Anthony Burke has started a new series focusing on VMware NSX in pure vSphere environments. Juan Manuel Rey has launched a series of blog posts on deploying OpenStack with KVM and VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Need more details on PFS?

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Vmware Storage HP Virtualization 60

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). Operating Systems/Applications. You can get more details from the Netronome press release.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

I’d love to hear from more networking pros (please disclose company affiliations) about their thoughts on this matter. VMware has a similar offering via the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service recovery-as-a-service offering. Preston Bannister took a look at cloud application backup in OpenStack. on a headless Ubuntu 14.04

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Linux Network Vmware Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 11, 2018

Trond Hindenes shares a bit on how his company is using Traefik as a Kubernetes ingress controller for both internal and external traffic. Typhoon, which describes itself as a “free and minimal Kubernetes distribution,” has announced support for Typhoon on Fedora Atomic systems. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Network Virtualization Open Source Vmware 60

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Many developers faced difficulties porting applications developed for a particular computing environment decades ago. Each container leverages a shared operating system kernel and encapsulates everything needed to run an application (application code, dependencies, environment variables, application runtimes, libraries, system tools etc.)

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Operating Systems Applications Enterprise Enterprise 96

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

The system can be centrally managed via Cisco’s cloud-based Intersight management platform, and it supports Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and VMware vSphere hypervisors. Customers now can create application policies through ACI that push the network subnet configuration directly into Prism Central to be assigned to workloads.

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Data Center Network Enterprise Enterprise 182

Scott Lowe

JUNE 29, 2016

As you read it, keep in mind that Hannes founded a company (RtBrick) to explore some of the things he talks about in the article. Operating Systems/Applications. Hey, VMware Fusion/Workstation team—want to know why people seem to prefer VB over your technically-superior product? This would be one reason.

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Linux Network Hardware Vmware 60

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

MAY 23, 2019

Companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are investing heavily in voice technology. Conversational interfaces have been incorporated into websites and applications in many different ways; your website’s chatbot, the way the user fills out your contact form, the way that consumers find answers, and more.

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Trends Government Data Data Center 40

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed). Programming.

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